Dirge Definition

dûrj
dirges
noun
dirges
A funeral hymn.
Webster's New World
A slow, sad song, poem, or musical composition expressing grief or mourning; lament.
Webster's New World
A mournful or elegiac poem or other literary work.
American Heritage
The Office of the Dead.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Dirge

Noun

Singular:
dirge
Plural:
dirges

Origin of Dirge

  • Middle English an antiphon at Matins in the Office of the Dead from Medieval Latin dīrige Domine direct, O Lord (the opening words of the antiphon) imperative of dīrigere to direct direct

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the beginning of an antiphon in the Latin requiem (Dirige, Domine, deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam)

    From Wiktionary

Dirge Sentence Examples

  • The wind blew the entire night, creaking and groaning about the old building in a mournful dirge.

  • After his death the mourning pupil wrote a funeral dirge (1908) in memory of his master.

  • The sailors, desirous of hearing so famous a musician, consented, and the poet, standing on the deck of the ship, in full minstrel's attire, sang a dirge accompanied by his lyre.

  • Unfortunately these 5 tracks tend to bleed into one another like a mid tempo funeral dirge.

  • Rather, the contrary; for he implies that The Qinoth contained not only Jeremiah's single dirge on Josiah, but also the elegies of " all the singing men and singing women," from the time of Josiah's death (608) down to his own day (3rd century).

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DDIDIR

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EGERGE

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