exequies

Feckless Andy, late for his former teacher's funeral, sidles into the wrong chapel at Richmond crematorium and finds himself at the sparsely attended exequies of one Christopher Madigan.

Angelina Jolie Biography, Gary Shteyngart's 'Super Sad True Love Story': Book Review Roundup 2010

Feckless Andy, late for his former teacher's funeral, sidles into the wrong chapel at Richmond crematorium and finds himself at the sparsely attended exequies of one Christopher Madigan.

Angelina Jolie Biography, Gary Shteyngart's 'Super Sad True Love Story': Book Review Roundup 2010

The media exequies for Cronkite we9re no surprise, of course: there is no undertaker like television, and he was its own.

By the Blight of the Silvery Moon: Mad Men Postmortem: James Wolcott Wolcott, James 2009

And since the ashes of sacrifices burnt upon the altar of God were carefully carried out by the priests, and deposed in a clean field; since they acknowledged their bodies to be the lodging of Christ, and temples of the Holy Ghost, they devolved not all upon the sufficiency of soul-existence; and therefore with long services and full solemnities, concluded their last exequies, wherein to all distinctions the Greek devotion seems most pathetically ceremonious.

Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

More serious conjectures find some examples of sepulture in elephants, cranes, the sepulchral cells of pismires, and practice of bees, — which civil society carrieth out their dead, and hath exequies, if not interments.

Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

A manne (not altogether causeles) mighte merueile, that thei could not be contente to constitute lawes for the framyng of the maners of those that are onliue, but also put ordre for the exequies, and Hearses of the deade.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

These when a funeral happeneth, make vnto him that is doer for the deade, an estimate of the exequies in writing, whiche the doer may at his pleasure enlarge or make lesse.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision

And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous