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  2. Repose - Wikipedia

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    Repose is a word meaning "rest" or "calmness". Repose may also refer to: Lying in repose, when the body of a deceased person is set out for public viewing; Dying, particularly used of saints in the Eastern Orthodox Church; Mount Repose (disambiguation), several mountains; USS Repose, several US Navy ships; Repose, a c.1871 painting by Édouard ...

  3. Lying in repose - Wikipedia

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    Lying in repose is the tradition in which the body of a deceased person, often of high social stature, is made available for public viewing. Lying in repose differs from the more formal honor of lying in state , which is generally held at the principal government building of the deceased person's country and often accompanied by a guard of honour .

  4. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    Used in genealogical records, often abbreviated as d.v.m., to indicate a person who predeceased his or her mother. decessit vita patris: died in the lifetime of the father: Used in genealogical records, often abbreviated as d.v.p., to indicate a person who predeceased his or her father. decus et tutamen: an ornament and a safeguard

  5. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

  6. Rest in peace - Wikipedia

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    Rest in peace (R.I.P.), [1] a phrase from the Latin requiescat in pace (Ecclesiastical Latin: [rekwiˈeskat in ˈpatʃe]), is sometimes used in traditional Christian services and prayers, such as in the Catholic, [2] Lutheran, [3] Anglican, and Methodist [4] denominations, to wish the soul of a decedent eternal rest and peace.

  7. Glossary of fencing - Wikipedia

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    Used by the referee to declare that a touch has been made. The phrase pas de touche (French pronunciation: [pɑ də tuʃ]; English: 'no touch') indicates that the hit should not be counted. [8] Touché Touché (French pronunciation:): the French word for 'touched' is used to acknowledge a hit, called out by the fencer who is hit. Trompement

  8. Disposal of human corpses - Wikipedia

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    The disposal of human corpses, also called final disposition, is the practice and process of dealing with the remains of a deceased human being.Disposal methods may need to account for the fact that soft tissue will decompose relatively rapidly, while the skeleton will remain intact for thousands of years under certain conditions.

  9. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...