office of the dead

1. 1.

   an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church

   Broaderoffice

   Roman Catholic

Questions about office of the dead

What does office of the dead mean?

office of the dead means "an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church".

Is office of the dead a common word?

office of the dead is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.