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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..

Obsequy :: Obsequy (n.) The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural..

End :: End (v. t.) To destroy; to put to death.

Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To put to death by suspending by the neck; -- a form of capital punishment; as, to hang a murderer..

Pelagian :: Pelagian (n.) A follower of Pelagius, a British monk, born in the later part of the 4th century, who denied the doctrines of hereditary sin, of the connection between sin and death, and of conversion through grace..

Cadaveric :: Cadaveric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity..

Quicken :: Quicken (a.) To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite..

Passion :: Passion (n.) A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross..

Obit :: Obit (n.) Death; decease; the date of one's death.

Gospel :: Gospel (v.) One of the four narratives of the life and death of Jesus Christ, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John..

Shiloh :: Shiloh (n.) A word used by Jacob on his deathbed, and interpreted variously, as the Messiah, or as the city Shiloh, or as Rest..

Execution :: Execution (n.) A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer..

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..

Crucify :: Crucify (v. t.) To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

Relief :: Relief (n.) A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant..

Trental :: Trental (n.) An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial.

Inquest :: Inquest (n.) Judicial inquiry; official examination, esp. before a jury; as, a coroner's inquest in case of a sudden death..

Theta :: Theta (n.) A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in English; -- sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being used by the judges on their ballots in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek qa`natos, death..

Dead :: Dead (a.) Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty..

Slay :: Slay (v. t.) To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy..

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