obsequies

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Obsequies provide a chance for catching up on the latest gossip or to do a little business.

From Time Magazine Archive

On Monday, December the 29th, the Funeral Obsequies were performed.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh

Obsequies of Flourens at Versailles.—Decree concerning the complicity with Versailles, and arrest of hostages.

From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John

The funeral Preparations and final Obsequies The death of Lord Byron was felt by all Greece as a national misfortune. 

From The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John

Obsequies more heartless in their manner of performance, it was never the fate of the four to behold.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various