obsequy

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"Whether derided or praised," the historian Robert Rotberg has written, "he remains an object of calumny, obsequy and inquiry."

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2015

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: "Now, Love, Love!

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

Thou wast not keen To insult in present of his corse, like these, The insensate general and his brother-king, Who came with proud intent to cast him forth Foully debarred from lawful obsequy.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

But more of that hereafter: take it hence And let the ladyes guarde it tyll it be Interrd with publique sollempe obsequy.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

I was glad when it was over; our own simple service, read by the merest layman, would surely have been a more fitting obsequy.

From Border and Bastille by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)