Category:Obsequy

Ob"se*quy, n.; pl. Obsequies. Etym: [l. obsequiae, pl., funeral Rites, fr. obsequi: cf.F. obsèques. See obsequent, and cf. Obsequious.]

1. The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; Hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in The plural. Spencer. I will...fetch him hence, and solemnly attend, with silent obsequy And funeral train. Milton I will myself be the chief mourner at his obsequies. Dryden. The funeral obsequies were decently and privately performed by his Family j. P. Mahaffy.

2. Obsequiousness. [obs.] B. Jonson.