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MORTUARY (Med. Lat. mortuarium, from mortuus, dead)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 883 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MORTUARY (Med. Lat. mortuarium, from mortuus, dead) , of or belonging to the dead, or, in particular, to the burial
2 In his book Morton indulges his fondness for punning and display of Latinity by calling the place Mare-
Mount
  (Hill by the sea).
of the dead. The
chief
 
modern
  use of the word is for a building in which dead bodies awaiting burial may be temporarily kept, for the purpose of inquiry, identification, post-mortem examination, &c. But it has also been applied to many subjects connected with death and burial. In monastic institutions it was the duty of the
almoner
  to send round to other monastic houses notice of the death of a member, asking for prayers for the soul of the dead. This notice was often beautifully illuminated. On being returned with the endorsement of the monastery to which it had been sent, it would be copied into the roll. Both the notice and the roll were known as a mortuarium, or
mortuary
  (see Abbot F. H. Gasquet's
English
  Monastic
Life
 , 1904). In the
English
 
Church
  a "
mortuary
  " was in certain places a customary oblation or offering paid out of the estate of a deceased person to the
church
  to which he belonged. An act of 1529 (21 Hen. VIII. c. 6) limited the amount to be paid in mortuaries, the highest being of the value of sos. in estates above 40. Mortuaries, where customary, can only be enforced in the ecclesiastical courts. The custom has entirely died out, though claims have been made from time to time.


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