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Funeral rites or ceremonies.

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Usage examples (27)
  • The media exequies for Cronkite we9re no surprise, of course: there is no undertaker like television, and he was its own.
  • And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full...
  • Feckless Andy, late for his former teacher's funeral, sidles into the wrong chapel at Richmond crematorium and finds himself at the sparsely attended exequies of one...
  • More serious conjectures find some examples of sepulture in elephants, cranes, the sepulchral cells of pismires, and practice of bees, — which civil society carrieth out their...
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  • This word was used in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.
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