dirge

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"Life is what we make it--an anthem or a dirge, a psalm of hope or a lamentation of despair."

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  1. noun Music A funeral hymn or lament.
  2. noun Music A slow, mournful musical composition.
  3. noun A mournful or elegiac poem or other literary work.

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  1. Middle English, an antiphon at Matins in the Office of the Dead, from Medieval Latin dīrige Domine, direct, O Lord (the opening words of the antiphon), imperative of dīrigere, to direct; see direct.

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  1. Scots also dirgie, etc. (see dirgie); from Middle English dirge, dorge, dyrge, dirige, deregy, funeral service, the office for the dead; so called from an antiphon therein sung beginning “Dirige, Domine, Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam” (Direct, O Lord my God, my way in thy sight), the words being taken from the Psalms (“Domine …dirige in conspectu tuo viam meam”; Vulgate, Ps. v. 8): L. dirige, imperative of dirigere, make straight, direct: see direct. In Middle English the dirge or dirige is often mentioned in connection with the placebo, so named for a similar reason.
 

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