Office of the Dead

Of·fice of the Dead  (ôfs, fs)

n. Ecclesiastical

An office traditionally sung or said before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church, now obligatory only on All Souls' Day.

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Office of the Dead - an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church office - a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities; "the offices of the mass" Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church, Roman Catholic - the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy