obsequy

noun /ˈɒbsəkwiː/

1. The last office for the dead.

2. A funeral rite or service.

   And to the ladyes he reſtored agayn / The bodyes of her huſbandes yͭ were ſlayn / To done obſequies as tho was the gyſe.

Where it comes from

From Middle English obseque, from Old French obseque, osseque, from Latin obsequiī (“complaisant, yielding”), alteration of obsequia (“compliance”) (by confusion, in association with exsequia (“funeral rites”), from exsequī (“follow or accompany to the grave”)).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry obsequy (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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