office_of_the_dead (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *Office of the Dead*:
NOUN	act	Office of the Dead	an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church

English > *Office of the Dead*: 1 sense > noun 1, act
Meaning	An office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church.
Category	Roman Catholic, Western Church, Roman Catholic Church, Church of Rome, Roman Church	The Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy
Broader	office	A religious ... / religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities

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