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situation near in place or time, or in the course of events; near. He was sick, nigh unto death. Phil. ii. 27. He drew not nigh unheard; the angel bright, Ere he drew nigh, his radiant visage turned. Milton.

The period after the close of life; death. She closed her eyes in everlasting night. Dryden.

scribed as of a mischievous disposition. The treacherous nixes who entice men to a watery death. Tylor.

The ninth part of movable goods, formerly payable to the clergy on the death of persons in their parishes. Mozley & W.

Death; decease; the date of one's death. Wood.

Of or pertaining to the death of a person or persons; as, an obituary notice; obituary poetry.

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. Spencer. I will...fetch him hence, and solemnly attend, With silent obsequy and funeral train. Milton I will myself Be the chief mourner at his obsequies. Dryden. The funeral o…

g the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death. [Poetic] To die, and go we know not where, To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot. Shak.

ional offering. [Obs.] "Tithes and other obventions." Spenser. Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of princes and great persons, and other casualities and obventions. Fuller.

ent, deceived me. Rom. vii. 11. I'll take the occasion which he gives to bring Him to his death. Waller.

y seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof. Shak. Thomas was an ocular witness of Christ's death. South.

The last; the end; hence, death. "Omega! thou art Lord," they said. Tennyson. Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending; hence, the chief, the whole. Rev. i. 8. The alpha and omega of science. Sir J. Herschel.

explain. The king opened himself to some of his council, that he was sorry for the earl's death. Bacon. Unto thee have I opened my cause. Jer. xx. 12. While he opened to us the Scriptures. Luke xxiv. 32.

inding the fact of a crime but not stating the criminal, or finding the fact of a violent death without disclosing the cause.

cted of crime are forced to eat the seeds of the plumlike fruit, and criminals are put to death by being pricked with a lance dipped in the juice of the seeds.

ointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death.

The utmost or last extremity. Combat à outrance, a fight to the end, or to the death.

n. Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. Dryden. None shall presume to fly, under pain of death. Addison.

xysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.

The abode of sanctified souls after death. To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise. Luke xxiii. 43. It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise. Longfellow.