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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A meditation upon death.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A view or contemplation of death.

Wiktionary

  1. n. contemplation of death

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an essay expressing a view on the subject of death

Etymologies

  1. Greek thanatos, death + -opsis. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “As the countdown continued and the ritual of docile thanatopsis became more intense, Matt and Emily began to edge away from their half-mesmerized guards, pushing Eve in the antigrav chair and keeping close to the outer ring of lepidos.”

    Perseus Spur

  • “After they are informed of the situation, Administrator Ru Lokinak will lead us in the ritual of docile thanatopsis, since there is no Anointed Elder in the company.”

    Perseus Spur

  • “It had to be the Haluk thanatopsis — their death meditation.”

    Perseus Spur

  • “Faintly, I heard the sound of the thanatopsis chant.”

    Perseus Spur

  • “This intimate thanatopsis had made him hard and he almost regretted having killed the Chinese boy.”

    The Ninja

  • “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

  • “NBC’s airing of Cho Seung-Hui’s ranting thanatopsis isn't anything media wouldn't have run with 200 years ago.”

    What Boundaries of Openness?

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