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Beatification :: Beatification (n.) The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of the blessed, or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization..

Obituary :: Obituary (n.) That which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person; a notice of the death of a person, accompanied by a biographical sketch..

Prosopop/ia :: Prosopop/ia (n.) A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification..

Inferiae :: Inferiae (n. pl.) Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends.

Succiduous :: Successor (n.) 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..

Nonregent :: Nonregent (n.) A master of arts whose regency has ceased. See Regent.

Curtesy :: Curtesy (n.) the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands..

Assets :: Assets (n. pl.) Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend..

Decedent :: Decedent (n.) A deceased person.

Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease..

Inertia :: Inertia (n.) Want of activity; sluggishness; -- said especially of the uterus, when, in labor, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased..

Defunct :: Defunct (a.) Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.

Tombstone :: Tombstone (n.) A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased..

Obit :: Obit (n.) A service for the soul of a deceased person on the anniversary of the day of his death.

Ziega :: Ziega (n.) Curd produced from milk by adding acetic acid, after rennet has ceased to cause coagulation..

Reinsure :: Reinsure (v. t.) To insure again after a former insuranse has ceased; to renew insurance on.

Ghost :: Ghost (n.) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

Third :: Third (n.) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life..

Diptych :: Diptych (n.) 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..

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred..

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