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English
Etymology
A back-formation from exequies, from Middle English exequies, from Old French exequies, from Latin exsequiās, accusative of exsequiae (“train of followers”).
Pronunciation
Noun
exequy (plural exequies)
- (obsolete, now only in plural) Funeral rites.
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :But yet, before we go, let’s not forget
The noble Duke of Bedford late deceased,
But see his exequies fulfill’d in Rouen:
- 1609, Douay–Rheims Bible, Old Testament, volume I (1635 reprint), “The Second Book of Samuel, which we cal the Second of Kings.”, chapter i, marginal note b, page 573:
- Exequies of Saul obſerued with mourning weeping and faſting.
1658, Thomas Browne, “Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall. . Chapter I”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, Together with The Garden of Cyrus, , London: Hen Brome , →OCLC, page 1:More ſerious conjectures finde ſome examples of ſepulture in Elephants, Cranes, the Sepulchrall Cells of Piſmires and practice of Bees; which civill ſociety carrieth out their dead, and hath exequies, if not interrments.
2000, Kate Atkinson, Emotionally Weird, Black Swan (2001), page 191:We were accelerating along the Perth Road at a speed much faster than is normally associated with exequies.