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Office of the Dead   /ˈɔfəs əv ðə dɛd/   Listen
Office of the Dead

noun
1.
An office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church.






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"Office of the Dead" Quotes from Famous Books



... the thyme all around alighted thousands of bees from the neighboring plants, whilst chaffinches and redthroats sang cheerfully among the flower-spangled hedges. It was to this place the somber coffins were carried, attended by a silent and respectful crowd. The office of the dead being celebrated, the last adieux paid to the noble departed, the assembly dispersed, talking, along the roads, of the virtues and mild death of the father, of the hopes the son had given, and of his melancholy end upon the ...
— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere



Words linked to "Office of the Dead" :   Roman Church, office, Western Church, Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic



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