Dirge - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: dirgeCoranach
A lamentation for the dead a dirge...
Dirge
A piece of music of a mournful character to accompany funeral rites a funeral hymn...
Dirgeful
Funereal moaning...
Dirige
A service for the dead in the Roman Catholic Church being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead of which Dirige is the first word a dirge...
Lollardy
Lollardy [fr. lullen, lollen, or lallen, Old Germ., to sing with a low voice; and hard, from the singing of funeral dirges, Mosh.], a vulgar term of reproach brought from Belgium an given to the early Protestants (the followers of Wycliffe) as far back as the reign of Edward III. the Lollards closely resembled the Puritans of Elizabeth's reign, Stow's Annals, 425...
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