exequious
English
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editexequious (comparative more exequious, superlative most exequious)
- (obsolete) funereal
- 1603, Michael Drayton, The Barons Wars, published 1753, page 123:
- Prepare yourself to build the funeral-pile,
Lay your pale hands to this exequious fire,
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “exequious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)