Meaning of Obit | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The death of a person.
   archaic
2. An obituary.
   colloquial
3. A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person.
   historical
4. A record of a person's death.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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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