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

More serious conjectures find some examples of sepulture in elephants, cranes, the sepul- chral cells of pismires, and practice of bees,—which civil society carrieth out their dead, and hath exequies, if not interments.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir

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.

These when a funeral happeneth, make vnto him that is doer for the deade, an estimate of the exequies in writing, whiche the doer may at his pleasure enlarge or make lesse.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Hakluyt, Richard