obit
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Definition of obit
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (archaic)The death of a person.
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noun
- (archaic)The death of a person.
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(historical)A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person.
“Medieval wills often contained bequests to pay for the singing of special (non-perpetual) masses on the testator's behalf. These obits, as they were called, combined alms for the poor with masses for the dead.”
- A record of a person's death.
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(colloquial)An obituary.
“So a proposed US series, called Circling the Drain, is certainly breaking new ground. It involves a 25-year-old reporter (played by Caprica's Alessandra Torresani) who is reassigned from a paper's style section to its obits desk.”
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Etymology
From Anglo-Norman obit, Middle French obit, and their source, Latin obitus (“going down; death”), from obīre (“to go down, to die”).
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