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Definition of Requiescat
1. Noun. A prayer for the repose of the soul of a dead person.
Definition of Requiescat
1. Noun. A prayer for the peaceful repose of the soul of a dead person ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Requiescat
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Requiescat
Literary usage of Requiescat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Poetry by Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty (1922)
"George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) Unlike the preceding selections,
Matthew Arnold's "requiescat" is not a love poem. The Latin title means May she ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"jot requiescat STREW on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew. In quiet she
reposes: Ah ! would that I did too. Her mirth the world required: She ..."
3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"requiescat Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she
reposes; Ah, would that I did too! Her mirth the world required; She bathed it ..."
4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"requiescat IN PACE A NEW-MADE grave, for the damp earth stood Yellow and miry
there at the lips Of the pit, ..."
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