exequy

noun

1. (obsolete, plural)Funeral rites.

   “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.”