OFFICE OF THE DEAD

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("Office of the Dead" is a kind of...):

office (a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities)

Domain category:

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)

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