Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To sing dirges
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a deceased person. · A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring.
From Middle English dirige, from Latin dirige (“steer, direct”), from the beginning of the first antiphon in matins for the dead, Dirige, Domine, deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam. Doublet of dirige.
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