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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
obit
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I've got an obit of poor old Eddy Moulton to do for the Journalist.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Obit

Obit \O"bit\, n. [OF. obit, L. obitus, fr. obire to go against, to go to meet, (sc. mortem) to die; ob (see Ob-) + ire to go. See Issue.]

  1. Death; decease; the date of one's death.
    --Wood.

  2. A funeral solemnity or office; obsequies.

  3. A service for the soul of a deceased person on the anniversary of the day of his death.

    The emoluments and advantages from oblations, obits, and other sources, increased in value.
    --Milman.

  4. Same as obituary; -- by shortenting.

    Post obit [L. post obitum]. See Post-obit.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
obit

late 14c., "death," from Middle French obit or directly from Latin obitus "death," noun use of past participle of obire "to die," literally "to go toward" (see obituary). In modern usage (since 1874) it is usually a clipped form of obituary, though it had the same meaning of "published death notice" 15c.-17c. The scholarly abbreviation ob. with date is from Latin obiit "(he) died," third person singular of obire.

Wiktionary
obit

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context obsolete English) death of a person. (14th-17th c.) 2 (context Christianity now historical English) A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person. (from 14th c.) 3 A record of a person's death. (from 15th c.) Etymology 2

n. (context colloquial English) An obituary.

WordNet
obit

n. a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography [syn: obituary, necrology]

Wikipedia
Obit

Obit may refer to:

  • Obituary, a brief notice of a person’s death
  • Obiit, a mediaeval mass of remembrance, named from the perfect case of the Latin verb ob-eo, to go away: "he has gone away"
  • " O.B.I.T.", a 1963 episode of the original The Outer Limits television show

Usage examples of "obit".

King Henry VIII was about to make an expedition to France in 1544, the Court of Aldermen gave notice to the Bishop of London that the obit of Henry VII would be kept on Friday, the 16th May, on which day there would be a general procession, and that the observance would be continued until the king departed out of the realm, and then on every Friday and Wednesday until his return.

Barchet obit and wonder why an official of the Seller Laboratories had been allowed to die on the premises, when reanimation equipment was right there.

Just when I had stopped dreaming of an early retirement, of cashing in, walking away, jetting off to Europe, and backpacking across Australia, just when I had resettled into my routine of covering stories and writing obits and hawking ads to every merchant in town, Mr.

The obits consumed at least one page, with me in charge of every word.

And Clothier, furious at having been cheated, set about foreclosing on the mortgages and the post obits and resorted to Chancery in the attempt to prove that the codicil was illegally suppressed and that, since the marriage of your parents never took place, his son, Silas, was the rightful heir.

To render valueless the various mortgages and post obits and other charges that had been imposed upon it?

She read the back issues of the local newspapers, looking in the obits for names she recognized.

One is a nice warm quote about her brother—I hate to hang the entire obit on Cleo Rio.

Nepemiah Derby, obit 1719, from the Charter Street Burying Ground in Salem.

Jimmy Stoma's obit is 810 words, or about twenty-four column inches of type.

Scrolling through past glories, written before my time on the obit beat, I'm amused to see that several of the Orrin Van Gelder stories popped up, all the way from Gadsden County.

In the cloister, hell is accepted in advance as a post obit on paradise.

She said she'd been reading the Times for fifty years, front to back, everything including the obits and the want ads, and after a moment or two offered the opinion that the paper was in much better hands now.