• (British, America) IPA: /ˈɔbsɪ.kwiː/

obsequy (plural obsequies)

1. The last office for the dead.
2. (chiefly, in the plural) A funeral rite or service.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125 ↗; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: Printed by [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868 ↗, folio i, verso ↗, lines 133–135, column 2:

     And to the ladyes he reſtored agayn / The bodyes of her huſbandes that#Middle English|yͭ were ſlayn / To done obſequies as tho was the gyſe

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

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