Obsequy /(?)/

pl. Obsequies

1. The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural.

   I will . . . fetch him hence, and solemnly attend, With silent obsequy and funeral train.

   I will myself Be the chief mourner at his obsequies.

   The funeral obsequies were decently and privately performed by his family.

2. Obsequiousness. [Obs.]