Requiem

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: req=ui=em

CIDE DICTIONARY

Requiem, n. [Acc. of L. requies rest, the first words of the Mass being “Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,” give eternal rest to them, O lord; pref. re- re + quies quiet. See Quiet, n., and cf. Requin.].

•  A mass said or sung for the repose of a departed soul.  [1913 Webster]

  "We should profane the service of the dead
  To sing a requiem and such rest to her
  As to peace-parted souls."  [1913 Webster]
•  Any grand musical composition, performed in honor of a deceased person.  [1913 Webster]
•  Rest; quiet; peace.  [1913 Webster]

  "Else had I an eternal requiem kept,
  And in the arms of peace forever slept."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Requiem, n.
1 (Requiem) (also attrib.) chiefly RC Ch. a mass for the repose of the souls of the dead.
2 Mus. the musical setting for this.

Etymology

ME f. accus. of L requies rest, the initial word of the mass

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Requiem

n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites. Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge.

THESAURUS

Requiem

Dry Mass, Eucharistic rites, Lady Mass, Low Mass, Mass, Missa, Missa bassa, Missa cantata, Missa legata, Missa media, Missa praesanctificatorum, Missa privata, Missa publica, Missa sicca, Negro spiritual, Requiem Mass, Rosary, Rosary Mass, anthem, burial service, cantata, canticle, chorale, church music, coronach, dead march, death knell, death song, deathwatch, dirge, doxology, elegy, epicedium, eulogy, exequies, extreme unction, funeral march, funeral oration, funeral rites, funeral song, gospel, gospel music, graveside oration, hymn, hymn-tune, hymnody, hymnology, introit, keen, knell, last duty, last honors, last offices, last rites, mass, monody, motet, muffled drums, obsequies, offertory, offertory sentence, oratorio, paean, passing bell, passion, prosodion, psalm, psalmody, recessional, requiem mass, sacred music, spiritual, the Divine Liturgy, the Liturgy, threnode, threnody, viaticum, wake, white spiritual

ROGET THESAURUS

Requiem

Lamentation

N lament, lamentation, wail, complaint, plaint, murmur, mutter, grumble, groan, moan, whine, whimper, sob, sigh, suspiration, heaving, deep sigh, cry, scream, howl, outcry, wail of woe, ululation, frown, scowl, tear, weeping, flood of tears, fit of crying, lacrimation, lachrymation, melting mood, weeping and gnashing of teeth, plaintiveness, languishment, condolence, mourning, weeds, willow, cypress, crape, deep mourning, sackcloth and ashes, lachrymatory, knell, deep death song, dirge, coronach, nenia, requiem, elegy, epicedium, threne, monody, threnody, jeremiad, jeremiade, ullalulla, mourner, grumbler, Noobe, Heraclitus, lamenting, in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes, sorrowing, sorrowful, mournful, tearful, lachrymose, plaintive, plaintful, querulous, querimonious, in the melting mood, threnetic, in tears, with tears in one's eyes, with moistened eyes, with watery eyes, bathed in tears, dissolved in tears, like Niobe all tears, elegiac, epicedial, de profundis, les larmes aux yeux, Int, heigh-ho!, alas!, alack!, O dear!, ah me!, woe is me!, lackadaisy!, well a day!, lack a day!, alack a day!, wellaway!, alas the day!, O tempora O mores!, what a pity!, miserabile dictu!, O lud lud!, too true!, tears standing in the eyes, tears starting from the eyes, eyes suffused, eyes swimming, eyes brimming, eyes overflowing with tears, if you have tears prepare to shed them now, interdum lacrymae pondera vocis habent, strangled his language in his tears, tears such as angels weep.