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- Latin · derived fromdirige“steer, direct”
- Middle English · inherited fromdirige
- English todaydirge
From Middle English dirige, from Latin dirige (“steer, direct”), from the beginning of the first antiphon in matins for the dead, Dirige, Domine, deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam. Doublet of dirige.
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