exequies

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The exequies over the body were as solemn as they were premature; dust devils of argument spun through art magazines, scattering the ashes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even allowing for the high rhetorical tint required of such exequies 150 years ago, it's hard to think of an American artist whose death, tomorrow, would inspire such sentiments.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, after all these solemn exequies, We will our rites 318 of marriage solemnize.

From Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Marlowe, Christopher

Also I bequeath for two candles to burn at my exequies 30 lbs. of wax.

From Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century by Benson, Edwin

He had in his fellowship chariots, carts and horsemen, and was a great tourbe and company, and came over Jordan where as they hallowed the exequies by great wailing seven days long.

From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Wells, Philip P.