Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Departed; dead.
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He fiiither orden his executors to distribute lOl. in penny-dole to poor folks; and Cause an obite, or anniversary, yearly to be holden for his soul, in the parish church of Plymouth, during ten years after his decease, jexpending on every such obite 20s.
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812
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