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THRENODY

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 890 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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THRENODY , a lament written in See also:

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, a See also:

DIRGE

dirge, a funeral See also:

ODE (Gr. uiSri, from aei&ew, to sing)

ode composed in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of a dead personage . The word is an See also:

ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of the See also:

Greek 6prlvy6la, a funeral dirge, from epijvos, lamentation, wailing, 6pEOµat, I cry aloud, and 4, i), a See also:

SONG

song, ode, ¢Seu,, to sing .

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