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The death of a person.archaic
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A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person.historical
- 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.
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A record of a person's death.
obit
'ɔbit, 'әubit4 senses · 128 ms
Level C2
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An obituary.colloquial
- 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.