Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "obsequy" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF OBSEQUY

obsequy play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OBSEQUY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Obsequy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OBSEQUY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

obsequy

Funeral

A funeral is a ceremony for celebrating, respecting, sanctifying, or remembering the life of a person who has died. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from interment itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honor. Customs vary widely between cultures, and between religious affiliations within cultures. The word funeral comes from the Latin funus, which had a variety of meanings, including the corpse and the funerary rites themselves. Funerary art is art produced in connection with burials, including many kinds of tombs, and objects specially made for burial with a corpse.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OBSEQUY

obsecrate
obsecration
obsequent
obsequial
obsequies
obsequious
obsequiously
obsequiousness
observability
observable
observableness
observably
observance
observancy
observant
observantly
observation
observation balloon
observation car
observation deck

WORDS THAT END LIKE OBSEQUY

bad guy
buy
cliquy
colloquy
dulciloquy
exequy
guy
impulse buy
multiloquy
obloquy
pectoriloquy
puy
rebuy
soliloquy
somniloquy
Tanguy
tough guy
uy
Van Rompuy
ventriloquy

Synonyms and antonyms of obsequy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «obsequy» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF OBSEQUY

Find out the translation of obsequy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of obsequy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «obsequy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

obsequy
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

obsequy
570 millions of speakers

English

obsequy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

obsequy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

obsequy
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

obsequy
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

obsequy
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

obsequy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

obsequy
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Obsequy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

obsequy
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

obsequy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

obsequy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Obsequi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

obsequy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஈமக்கடன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वज्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

obsequy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

obsequy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

obsequy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

obsequy
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

obsequy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

obsequy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

obsequy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

obsequy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

obsequy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of obsequy

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OBSEQUY»

The term «obsequy» is used very little and occupies the 167.033 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Rarely used
22
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «obsequy» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of obsequy
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «obsequy».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OBSEQUY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «obsequy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «obsequy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about obsequy

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OBSEQUY»

Discover the use of obsequy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to obsequy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A new dictionary of the English language ...
Chaucer. Remedie of Loue, Prol. With all faythfull obsequy worshippe hym therfore that created heauen and earthe in wonderfull strength and bewty.— Bale . Image, pt. 11. He came vnto the kynges grace, and wayted vppon hym, and was no ...
Charles Richardson, 1856
2
Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of ...
Prays Cecil to remember the 100Z. for the late Emperor's obsequy. Mr. Baker being departed this life, prays him to remember Sir Walter Mildmay for that office. Asks him to obtain the Queen's licence that John Abyngdone, surveyor of the ...
Great Britain. Public Record Office, 1863
3
Calendar of state papers: foreign series, of the reign of ...
Prays Cecil to remember the 100Z. for the late Emperor's obsequy. Mr. Baker being departed this life, prays Lim to remember Sir Walter Mildmay for that office. Asks him to obtain the Queen's licence that John Abyngdone, surveyor of the ...
Great Britain. Public Record Office, 1863
4
Calendar of State Papers, Preserved in the State Paper ...
Prays Cecil to remember the 1001. for the late 'Emperor's obsequy. Mr. Baker being departed this life, prays him to remember Sir Walter Mildmay for that office. Asks him to obtain the Queen's licence that John Abyngdone, surveyor of the ...
William B. Turnbull, 1863
5
Middle English Dictionary
9/3l: The place godly to hym y-schewid was conteyned withyn the kyn- gis market , of the whyche it was not leuefull. . eny thyng to mynnysse, nethyr sitte to so solempne an obsequy depute. Ibid. 40/32: From the highe descense of heuynnes ,by ...
Sherman M. Kuhn, 1980
6
The Magazine of natural history and journal of zoology, ...
Art. V. Obsequy. By John F. M. Dovaston, Esq. A.M., of Westfelton, near Shrewsbury. " Mine be a breezy hill, that skirts the down ; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrown, Fast by a brook, or fountain's ...
‎1832
7
The Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology, ...
Art. V. Obsequy. By John F. M. Dovaston, Esq. A.M., of Westfelton, near Shrewsbury. " Mine be a breezy hill, that skirts the down ; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrown, Fast by a brook, or fountain's ...
J. C. Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, 1832
8
Dictionnary of the English Language with Numerous ...
M. Grindall, in his late funeral sermon at the obsequy of Ferdinandus, saieth and confesseth, that it cannot be denied but that after S. Gre- gorics time purgatory went with full sail. Stapleton, Fort, of the Faith, (1565,) fol. 8. b. In this last solemnity ...
Samuel Johnson, 1827
9
The Search for Sophia and the Garden of Eden
CHAPTER. 10. THE. OBSEQUY. Tim took a bite of his dinner while he set in his hotel room thinking of the years gone by. A knot welled up in his throat as he thought about all the times his mother had picked him up as a child and wiped the ...
Timothy M. Brown
10
A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
... dear religious love atolu from mine eye, As interest of the dead. Skakesp., Sonnet 31. OBSEQUIOUSLY. In celebration of a funeral. While I awhile obsequiously lament Th' untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster. OBSEQUY, %. Obsequiousness.
Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright, 1867

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OBSEQUY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term obsequy is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Why is Cecil Rhodes such a controversial figure?
"Whether derided or praised," the historian Robert Rotberg has written, "he remains an object of calumny, obsequy and inquiry." Rhodes said in ... «BBC News, Apr 15»
2
Thanks To Obama, A Rare Pic!
And many people have even criticized 'Corporate India' in what they believe is an act of obsequy and lack of self-respect in standing in a line to ... «Greatandhra.com, Jan 15»
3
Cricket has ridden its luck for too long
Even so the Jackson argument did have some resonance: a planned state memorial service was abandoned as one obsequy too many. «Financial Times, Dec 14»
4
Review: Amadeus at the New Vic
... II (a splendidly comic Bo Foxworth) fits Mozart like a gaudy straitjacket, and he suffocates in its dim atmosphere of obsequy and convention. «Santa Barbara Independent, Oct 14»
5
Our Callow Commander-in-Chief
While speaking, he responds to obsequy with obsequy — “I love you too!” he will tell admirers whose voices rise above the crowd's — and ... «National Review Online, Jul 14»
6
(The quintessential task…)
But did the stolidly unjerky knee stay bent in quiescent obsequy before the dynasty? This is an existential question for the Congress party. «Economic Times, May 14»
7
Seidler tapestry remains intact
Orthodoxy, along with an almost complete absence of architectural insight, gives the book a gushing politeness that verges on obsequy. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 14»
8
Proms 2013: BBC Singers and Nash Ensemble, review
It was an obsequy for all the extinct species of moth, many of them named in the text, and beyond that for all the disappearances that bring loss ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 13»
9
Plutocratic vistas: America's crisis of democracy
Another two years on, the invaluable investigative reporter Matt Taibbi has written a lengthy obsequy for Dodd-Frank. Dodd-Frank is groaning ... «Salon, Jul 12»
10
Book Review: The Last Storyteller: A Novel of Ireland by Frank …
Voices rose and fell in the muttered and stuttered litanies of obsequy. Some of the prayers ran away with the breeze. Dipping a round-knobbed ... «Blogcritics.org, Mar 12»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Obsequy [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/obsequy>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z