Antedating of "Obituary"

[Fred Shapiro]

obituary (OED 1706)

1703 William Somner _The Antiquities of Canterbury_ 12 (Eighteenth Century
Collections Online)  The Obituary of this Church has recorded the
Benefactions of Prior _Conrad_.

Fred Shapiro


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