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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 310 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DIRGE , a

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SONG

song or hymn of

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MOURNING (from the verb " to mourn," to be sorrowful, 0. Eng. murnan; cf. O.H.G. mornen, Goth. maurnan, to be anxious, O.N. morna, to pine away; by some referred to root seen in Gr. jdptpva, sorrow, by others to root mer-, to die)

mourning, particularly one sung at funerals or at a service in

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COMMEMORATION

commemoration of the dead . It is derived from the first word of the

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ANTIPHON

antiphon " Dirige, Domine,

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Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam " (

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GUIDE (in Mid. Eng. gyde, from the Fr. guide; the earlier French form was guie, English " guy," the d was due to the Italian form guida; the ultimate origin is probably Teutonic, the word being connected with the base seen in O. Eng. witan, to know)

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Lord, my

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GOD

God, my way in Thy sight), of the opening

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PSALM (from the Gr. word * hXAew, to play the harp)

psalm in the

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OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office for the dead in the

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ROMAN

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Church . The antiphon is adapted from

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VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse 8 of Psalm v .

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