Definition of "obsequy" [ob•se•quy]

• A funeral rite or ceremony. Often used in the plural. (noun)

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• "Man's introduction could be understood as the uncomfortable relation between obsequiousness and obsequy, that is, between the awkward coincidence of following one's teachers and issuing their burial rites. close window"
• "Elizabeth's address is a kind of obsequy over, or elegy for, realism."
• "Few doubted the meaning of his plaintive beat, and most even then divined that that solitary, forlorn figure of a drummer was tapping out an obsequy for British colonial power over the thirteen states."