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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Obsequy  \Ob"se*quy\,  n.;  pl  {Obsequies}.  [L.  obsequiae  pl., 
  funeral  rites,  fr  obsequi:  cf.F.  obs[`e]ques.  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 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Obsequies  \Ob"se*quies\,  n.pl. 
  See  {Obsequy}. 

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