thanatopsis

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The pie list swelled; the richer puddings had vanished; the sausage, with his drapery wrapped about him, barely lingered in a pleasant thanatopsis with the buckwheats and the sweet but doomed maple.

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  1. noun A meditation upon death.

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  • The pie list swelled; the richer puddings had vanished; the sausage, with his drapery wrapped about him, barely lingered in a pleasant thanatopsis with the buckwheats and the sweet but doomed maple. —  The Four Million
 

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  1. Greek thanatos, death + -opsis.

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  1. from Greek θάνατος, death, + ο\ψις, a sight, view, from √ ο\π in ο\ψεσθαι, future of όρᾱν, see: see optic.
 

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