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Empale :: Empale (v. t.) To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.

Translate :: Translate (v. t.) To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death..

Reversion :: Reversion (n.) A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person..

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

Catastrophe :: Catastrophe (n.) The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy..

Utterance :: Utterance (n.) The last extremity; the end; death; outrance.

Attainder :: Attainder (n.) The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder..

Defunction :: Defunction (n.) Death.

Posthumous :: Posthumous (a.) Published after the death of the author; as, posthumous works; a posthumous edition..

Death :: Death (v. i.) Cause of loss of life.

Stifle :: Stifle (v. t.) To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust..

Heriot :: Heriot (n.) Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant..

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..

Metempsychosis :: Metempsychosis (n.) The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of souls..

Thanatology :: Thanatology (n.) A description, or the doctrine, of death..

Vest :: Vest (n.) To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death..

Hanging :: Hanging (a.) Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter..

Heaven :: Heaven (n.) The dwelling place of the Deity; the abode of bliss; the place or state of the blessed after death.

Swan :: Swan (n.) Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have a large and strong beak and a long neck, and are noted for their graceful movements when swimming. Most of the northern species are white. In literature the swan was fabled to sing a melodious song, especially at the time of its death..

Atonement :: Atonement (n.) Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ..

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