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OFFICE OF THE DEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Office of the Dead mean? 

OFFICE OF THE DEAD (noun)
  The noun OFFICE OF THE DEAD has 1 sense:

1. an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Churchplay

  Familiarity information: OFFICE OF THE DEAD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OFFICE OF THE DEAD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("Office of the Dead" is a kind of...):

office (a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities)

Domain category:

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)


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