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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--obsequy This week's theme: red-herring words. obsequy (OB-si-kwee) noun A funeral rite or ceremony. [From Middle English obsequie, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin obsequiae, alteration (after Latin exsequiae, funeral rites) of Latin obsequia, plural of obsequium (compliance).] -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "When (Anthony) Powell died, in March of last year, at the age of ninety-four, the New York Times Book Review devoted a Bookend column to the obsequy." Christopher Hitchens; An Omnivorous Curiosity; The Atlantic Monthly (Boston); Jun 2001. X-Bonus It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world. -Will Durant, historian (1885-1981)

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