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noun

Requiem n.

(R.C.Ch.) A mass said or sung for the repose of a departed soul. "We should profane the service of the dead To sing a requiem and such rest to her As to peace-parted souls."

Any grand musical composition, performed in honor of a deceased person.

Rest; quiet; peace. (Obs.) "Else had I an eternal requiem kept, And in the arms of peace forever slept."

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Etymology of 'Requiem'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... where the reveille and roll-call may be heard, and the tramp of his fellow-soldiers echo and re-echo over him. All this is in unison with his profession; the drum and trumpet are his perpetual requiem; the soldier's honorable tread leaves no indignity upon the dead warrior's dust. But who has a right to trample on a woman's breast? And what had L.E.L. to do with warlike parade? And wherefore was she buried beneath this scorching pavement, ...

— Journal of an African Cruiser • Horatio Bridge

... swollen eyes and looking mortally sheepish, Jean-Marie reappeared and went ostentatiously about his business. He was the only unhappy member of the party that sat down that night to supper. As for the Doctor, he was radiant. He thus sang the requiem of the treasure:— ...

— The Merry Men - and Other Tales and Fables • Robert Louis Stevenson

... only edition in which the left hand arpeggios at the close, though in the final bar "both hands may do so." This is editorial quibbling. Stephen Heller remarked that this study reminded him of the first bar of the Kyrie—rather the Requiem Aeternam of Mozart's Requiem. ...

— Chopin: The Man and His Music • James Huneker

... blowing of brass trumpets and other absurdities. They collected from all quarters a mass of Scholastic and Papal writings, and especially those of Eck, and hastened with them and the bull, to the pile, which their companions had meanwhile kept alight. Another Te Deum was then sung, with a requiem, and the hymn 'O du ...

— Life of Luther • Julius Koestlin

... of vestments and without tapers in their hands, proceed to the altar of St. Thomas the Martyr, chanting the requiem, the ...

— Primitive Christian Worship • James Endell Tyler

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