Definition of death

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Death (v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe..

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Posthumous :: Posthumous (a.) Published after the death of the author; as, posthumous works; a posthumous edition..
Obit :: Obit (n.) A service for the soul of a deceased person on the anniversary of the day of his death.
Wail :: Wail (v. t.) To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's death..
Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty..
Euthanasia :: Euthanasia (n.) An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired.
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..
Decease :: Decease (n.) Departure, especially departure from this life; death..
Deathlike :: Deathlike (a.) Deadly.
Coroner :: Coroner (n.) An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred..
Perdition :: Perdition (n.) Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin; esp., the utter loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death..
Deuterogamy :: Deuterogamy (n.) A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy..
Doom :: Doom (v. t.) To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death..
End :: End (v. t.) To destroy; to put to death.
Somatic :: Somatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes..
Salvation :: Salvation (n.) The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness..
Deicide :: Deicide (n.) One concerned in putting Christ to death.
Widower :: Widower (n.) A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again..
Mourner :: Mourner (n.) One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend..
Translate :: Translate (v. t.) To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death..
Deathsman :: Deathsman (n.) An executioner; a headsman or hangman.
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