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

From this session interdict Every fowl of tyrant wing, Save the eagle, feather'd king: Keep the obsequy so strict.

From The Phoenix and the Turtle by Shakespeare, William

Live all and love together, and thereby You give your father a rich obsequy.

From Sir Thomas More by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

If a tear escape her eye 'Tis not for my memory But thy rights of obsequy.

From The Mad Lover The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (3 of 10) by Beaumont, Francis