obsequy

Man's introduction could be understood as the uncomfortable relation between obsequiousness and obsequy, that is, between the awkward coincidence of following one's teachers and issuing their burial rites. close window

Notes on ''At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...'' 2005

Elizabeth's address is a kind of obsequy over, or elegy for, realism.

Disturbing the Peace Lodge, David 2003

Few doubted the meaning of his plaintive beat, and most even then divined that that solitary, forlorn figure of a drummer was tapping out an obsequy for British colonial power over the thirteen states.

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

Few doubted the meaning of his plaintive beat, and most even then divined that that solitary, forlorn figure of a drummer was tapping out an obsequy for British colonial power over the thirteen states.

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

The second day after his obsequy was done reverently, and on his body laid

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

The next stanza speaks of "Dye Apguylamys," who is told to prepare the obsequy for Love, and of "Lady Apylton," who had offered a "mass-penny," and the epitaph ends with these stanzas:

Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849 Various

Timber City was goin 'to be the very last doggone drink I was ever goin' to get, I'd kind of strung it along a little -- sort of sipped it slow an 'solemn as become an obsequy.

Prairie Flowers 1921

The second day after his obsequy was done reverently, and on his body laid a tomb of stone and his banner hanging over him.

The Battle of Otterburn. How the Scots Departed and Carried with Them the Earl Douglas Dead, and Buried Him in the Abbey of Melrose; and How Sir Archambault Douglas and His Company Departed from before Carlisle and Returned into Scotland 1909

The baylan gave a talk or a prolix prayer, and finished by saying: "May the dead receive that obsequy, by giving good fortune to the living."

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. Edward Gaylord Bourne 1884

And "You knew Mr. Bowen was no longer living?" she said, with fit obsequy of tone.

Indian Summer William Dean Howells 1878