requiem

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  1. noun Roman Catholic Church A mass for a deceased person.
  2. noun Roman Catholic Church A musical composition for such a mass.
  3. noun A hymn, composition, or service for the dead.

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  • It was a requiem, a dirge, a moan, a howl a wail, a lament, an abstract of everything that is sorrowful and hideous in sound. —  Charles Dickens and Music
  • “Elisabeth!” he cries, and a requiem is heard from behind the scenes. —  Richard Wagner
  • When Rossini passed away, November 13, 1868, Verdi suggested a requiem should be written jointly by the best Italian composers. —  The World's Great Men of Music
  • Currently, requiem (currently at version 1.8.2) will work on only iTunes 8.0.1 and lower, though 8.0.2 (current iTunes version) is being worked on. —  OSNN
  • Alan Greenspan, delivered in Congress what some called a requiem for decades 'worth of economic teaching. —  The Situationist
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  1. Middle English, from Latin, accusative of requiēs, rest, the first word of the mass for the dead : re-, re- + quiēs, quiet; see kweiə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. =F. requiem, so called from the first word of the introit of the mass for the dead, “Requiem æternam dona eis,” etc.—a form which also serves as the gradual, and occurs in other offices of the departed: L. requiem, accusative of requies, rest, from re-, again, + quies, quiet, rest. Cf. dirge, similarly named from “Dirige.”
 

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