exequy
/ˈɛksɪkwi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But yet, before we go, let’s not forget The noble Duke of Bedford late deceased, But see his exequies fulfill’d in Rouen:"
- "EDWARD. Whether goes my Lord of Couentrie so fast? BISHOP. To celebrate your fathers exequies,"
- "Exequies of Saul obſerued with mourning weeping and faſting."
- "More ſerious conjectures finde ſome examples of ſepulture in Elephants, Cranes, the Sepulchrall Cells of Piſmires and practice of Bees; which civill ſociety carrieth out their dead, and hath exequies, if not interrments."
- "We were accelerating along the Perth Road at a speed much faster than is normally associated with exequies."
Etymology
A back-formation from exequies, from Middle English exequies, from Old French exequies, from Latin exsequiās, accusative of exsequiae (“a funeral, seeing-off procession”).