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GONE |
Deceased |
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LATE |
Deceased |
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DEAD |
Deceased |
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ESTATE |
Deceased's property |
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DECEDENT |
A deceased person. |
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OBITUARIES |
Write-ups for the deceased |
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DEFUNCT |
A dead person; one deceased. |
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OSSUARY |
A receptacle or place for bones of the deceased |
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KEEN |
A prolonged wail for a deceased person. Cf. Coranach. |
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INFERIAE |
Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or
friends. |
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REQUIEM |
Any grand musical composition, performed in honor of a
deceased person. |
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DEVASTATION |
Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or
administrator. |
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TOMBSTONE |
A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of
the deceased. |
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DEVASTAVIT |
Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased
person by an executor or an administrator. |
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OBIT |
A service for the soul of a deceased person on the
anniversary of the day of his death. |
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GHOST |
The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased
person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter. |
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CANONIZE |
To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the
catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized. |
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ANNUAL |
A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object,
said daily for a year or on the anniversary day. |
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ADMINISTRATION |
The management of an estate of a deceased person by
an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in
use. |
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THIRD |
The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which,
by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life. |
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DIPTYCH |
A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of
living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of
the church; a catalogue of saints. |
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BEATIFY |
To ascertain and declare, by a public process and
decree, that a deceased person is one of "the blessed" and is to be
reverenced as such, though not canonized. |
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CANONIZATION |
The final process or decree (following beatifacation)
by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue
(canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation. |
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LAR |
A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector
of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house;
household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house. |
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SUCCESSOR |
One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place
which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; --
correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king. |