obsequy

plural obsequies · alternative obsolete obsequie

1. The last office for the dead.
2. in pluralA funeral rite or service.

   But, to-day, there were no obsequies to observe at all.

   1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 13

   2 more examples

   And to the ladyes he reſtored agayn / The bodyes of her huſbandes yͭ were ſlayn / To done obſequies as tho was the gyſe.

   And to the ladies he restored again / The bodies of their husbands that were slain / To do obsequies as then was the custom.

   1478, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

   It was a rather ghastly ceremony, but it was the only means in our power of showing our respect to the faithful dead and of celebrating his obsequies.

   1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC