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Drop :: Drop (v. i.) To fall dead, or to fall in death..

Deathwatch :: Deathwatch (n.) The guard set over a criminal before his execution.

Deathlike :: Deathlike (a.) Deadly.

Impale :: Impale (v. t.) To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale.

Heir :: Heir (n.) One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter..

Fate :: Fate (n.) Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death..

Succeed :: Succeed (v. i.) Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.

Loss :: Loss (v. t.) Destruction or diminution of value, if brought about in a manner provided for in the insurance contract (as destruction by fire or wreck, damage by water or smoke), or the death or injury of an insured person; also, the sum paid or payable therefor; as, the losses of the company this year amount to a million of dollars..

Empalement :: Empalement (n.) A putting to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.

Tenebrae :: Tenebrae (n.) The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days..

Demise :: Demise (n.) The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person..

Posthumous :: Posthumous (a.) Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter..

Ending :: Ending (n.) Termination; concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death.

Digamous :: Digamous (a.) Pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband..

Martyr :: Martyr (n.) One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion; as, Stephen was the first Christian martyr..

Eternity :: Eternity (n.) Condition which begins at death; immortality.

Leave :: Leave (v.) To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece..

Morality :: Morality (n.) A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII..

Hell :: Hell (v. t.) The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades..

Propitiation :: Propitiation (n.) That which propitiates; atonement or atoning sacrifice; specifically, the influence or effects of the death of Christ in appeasing the divine justice, and conciliating the divine favor..

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