obsequy

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

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2015

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 William Shakespeare

The baylan gave a talk or a prolix prayer, and finished by saying: “May the dead receive that obsequy, by giving good fortune to the living.”

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson

The second day after his obsequy was done reverently, and on his body laid a tomb of stone and his banner hanging over him.

From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed

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 Francis Beaumont

I don’t want to add here to the emotional obsequies being written for the Washington Post, after its latest round of contraction last week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

The diplomatic focus will be on the part of St Peter's Square where presidents and prime ministers, princes and monarchs will sit waiting for the obsequies to begin.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025

That knowledge sits uncomfortably with what has come before, not because the leaden language of the scripted obsequies is persuasive, but because the grieving citizens are so real.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2021

What Levin has written is a diverting meta-thriller implying he is delivering the final obsequies over a once-flourishing but exhausted genre.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2010

The same desire to promote the public good, which induced Mr. Bentham to give his body for dissection, has led distinguished individuals, now and then, to prescribe simple and inexpensive obsequies, for themselves.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School