[每日] obsequies (n) 葬禮
Word of the Day (Thursday November 13, 2008)
obsequies \OB-sih-kweez\, noun:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/7b50o
funeral rites or ceremonies
The controversy that is to mark his obsequies surfaces soon after
when two priests object that Pavarotti, a remarried divorcee,
should be allowed to lie in state in the cathedral, "the highest
symbol of Christianity in Modena".
-- Elizabeth Grice, Pavarotti's last great tragic role, Daily
Telegraph, October 25, 2003
Similarly, when Elizabethan audiences watched Laertes protest the
brief obsequies given his sister Ophelia, they knew that Catholics
were furtively burying their loved ones with the old rites, while
publicly holding fake burials with the "maimed rites."
-- Cynthia L. Haven, Papist Plots," review of Shadowplay: The
Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare, by
Clare Asquith,, New York Times, August 13, 2001
c 1385 from Middle English obseque from Middle French, from Late
Latin obsequiae, an alteration of Latin obsequia "compliance,
dutiful service" and influenced by exsequiae "funeral rites"
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