exequious
English
Etymology
exequy + -ous?
Adjective
exequious (comparative more exequious, superlative most exequious)
- (obsolete) funereal
- 1603, Michael Drayton, The Barons Wars (1753 reprint, page 123):
- Prepare yourself to build the funeral-pile,
- Lay your pale hands to this exequious fire,
- 1603, Michael Drayton, The Barons Wars (1753 reprint, page 123):
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for exequious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)