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obsequie

obsequie is the obsolete form of obsequy.

Meaning of obsequy

Noun

obsequy (plural obsequies)

  1. The last office for the dead.
  2. (in plural) 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.1478, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Forms of obsequie

pluralobsequies

Questions about obsequie

What is obsequie the obsolete form of?
Obsequie is the obsolete form of obsequy.

Words near obsequie in the dictionary

  1. obsequial
  2. obsequiate
  3. obsequiated
  4. obsequiates
  5. obsequiating
  6. obsequie
  7. obsequience
  8. obsequiences
  9. obsequies
  10. obsequiosity
  11. obsequious

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Adapted from Wiktionary: obsequie (page history and authors); obsequy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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