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Reversion :: Reversion (n.) A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person..

Vest :: Vest (n.) To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts..

Mort :: Mort (n.) A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game.

Dying :: Dying (a.) In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies..

Ordinary :: Ordinary (n.) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death..

Death :: Death (v. i.) Loss of spiritual life.

Assurance :: Assurance (n.) Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death..

Obsequy :: Obsequy (n.) The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural..

Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To die or be put to death by suspension from the neck.

Posthumous :: Posthumous (a.) Being or continuing after one's death; as, a posthumous reputation..

Hanging :: Hanging (a.) Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter..

Life :: Life (n.) Of human beings: The union of the soul and body; also, the duration of their union; sometimes, the deathless quality or existence of the soul; as, man is a creature having an immortal life..

Eschatology :: Eschatology (n.) The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected..

Dead :: Dead (a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep..

Posthumous :: Posthumous (a.) Published after the death of the author; as, posthumous works; a posthumous edition..

Eternity :: Eternity (n.) Condition which begins at death; immortality.

Post-mortem :: Post-mortem (a.) After death; as, post-mortem rigidity..

Bane :: Bane (n.) Destruction; death.

Empale :: Empale (v. t.) To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.

Will :: Will (v.) The legal declaration of a person's mind as to the manner in which he would have his property or estate disposed of after his death; the written instrument, legally executed, by which a man makes disposition of his estate, to take effect after his death; testament; devise. See the Note under Testament, 1..

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