exequy

English

Etymology

From Old French exequies, from Latin exsequias, accusative of exsequiæ ‘train of followers’.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛksɪkwi/

Noun

exequy (plural exequies)

1. (obsolete, now only in plural) Funeral rites.
   • 1658, civill society carrieth out their dead, and hath exequies, if not interrments. — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 8)