lich-wake

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lich-wake (plural lich-wakes)

  1. (obsolete, Scotland) The wake, or watching, held over a corpse before burial.
    • 1871, Walter Field, Stones of the temple, or, Lessons from the fabric and furniture of the church‎:
      In some parts of Scotland is still kept up the custon of Lyke-wake (Lich-wake), or watching beside the dead body before its burial.
    • 1913, The Journal of State Medicine:
      Funeral rites in the house (lich wakes) should be avoided out of regard for the health of the members of the family.
    • 2016, Arthur Morrison, The Shadows Around Us‎:
      The custom of the "lich-wake," corresponding largely with the surviving Irish custom of waking the dead, had not then died out in Scotland, and in Monifieth was frequently practised.

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