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obit

noun
/ˈɒbɪt/UK/ˈəʊbɪt/UK

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman obit, Middle French obit, and their source, Latin obitus (“going down; death”), from obīre (“to go down, to die”).

  1. derived from obitus

Definitions

  1. The death of a person.

  2. 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.

  3. A record of a person's death.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. 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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Derived

post-obit

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for obit. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA