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the last hours before death
- deathbedthe last hours before death
- deathbedin the last few hours before death
- completoryin the Christian liturgy, the seventh and last service of the day, at 9pm, completing the set hours for prayer
- complinthe last of the seven canonical hours, or the service for it, originally occurring after the evening meal but now usually following immediately upon vespers
- complinethe last of the seven canonical hours, or the service for it, originally occurring after the evening meal but now usually following immediately upon vespers
- eschatologicalany system of doctrines concerning last, or final, matters, as death, the Judgment, the future state, etc.
- toed as a function word (1) to indicate the extent or degree (as of completeness or accuracy) loyal to a man generous to a fault or the extent and result (as of an action or a condition) beaten to death (2) to indicate the last or an intermediate point of a series moderate to cool temperatures
- antelucan(archaic) pertaining to the hours before dawn
- clockto postpone an official or legal deadline by ceasing to count the hours that elapse, as when a new union contract must be agreed upon before an old contract runs out
- antepenultimatebefore the next to the last (compare penultimate)
- juniorsstudent in the next-to-the-last year before graduating from an educational institution
- countdownsAn act of counting numerals in reverse order to zero, esp. to time the last seconds before the launching of a rocket or missile
- countdownAn act of counting numerals in reverse order to zero, esp. to time the last seconds before the launching of a rocket or missile
- pointstime interval immediately before something indicated verge at the point of death
- unhouselednot houseled, i.e. not having received the Eucharist shortly before death also UNHOUZZLED
- samadhisA state of intense concentration achieved through meditation. In Hindu yoga this is regarded as the final stage, at which union with the divine is reached (before or at death)
- deodand(before 1846) an animal or article that, having been the immediate cause of the death of a human being, was forfeited to the crown to be applied to pious uses
- yahrzeitthe anniversary of the death of a parent, sibling, child, or spouse, observed by lighting a memorial lamp or candle the night before and reciting the Kaddish at the evening service of the day before and at the morning and afternoon services of the