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==Origin==

==Origin==

[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] (denoting the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_for_the_Dead Office for the Dead]): from Latin ''dirige''! (imperative) ‘direct!,’ the first word of an antiphon (Psalm 5:8) used in the Latin Office for the Dead.

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] (denoting the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_for_the_Dead Office for the Dead]): from Latin ''dirige''! (imperative) ‘direct!,’ the first word of an antiphon (Psalm 5:8) used in the Latin Office for the Dead.

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century]

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century]

''dirige'' (current contracted form is from c.1400), from Latin ''dirige'' "direct!" imperative of ''dirigere'' "to direct," probably from antiphon ''Dirige, Domine, Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam'', "Direct, O Lord, my God, my way in thy [[sight]]," from Psalm v:9, which opened the Matins service in the ''Office of the Dead.'' Transferred sense of "any funeral song" is from c.1500.  

''dirige'' (current contracted form is from c.1400), from Latin ''dirige'' "direct!" imperative of ''dirigere'' "to direct," probably from antiphon ''Dirige, Domine, Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam'', "Direct, O Lord, my God, my way in thy [[sight]]," from Psalm v:9, which opened the Matins service in the ''Office of the Dead.'' Transferred sense of "any funeral song" is from c.1500.  

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*2: a mournful [[song]], piece of music, or [[poem]]: singers chanted ''dirges'' | figurative : the [[wind]] howled dirges around the chimney.

*2: a mournful [[song]], piece of music, or [[poem]]: singers chanted ''dirges'' | figurative : the [[wind]] howled dirges around the chimney.

==Description==

==Description==

A brief [[hymn]] or [[song]] of [[lamentation]] and [[grief]]; it was typically composed to be performed at a [[funeral]]. In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyric_poetry lyric poetry], a dirge tends to be shorter and less meditative than an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegy elegy]. See Christina Rossetti’s “[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=180634 A Dirge]” and Sir Philip Sidney’s “[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=174435 Ring Out Your Bells].”

A brief [[hymn]] or [[song]] of [[lamentation]] and [[grief]]; it was typically composed to be performed at a [[funeral]]. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyric_poetry lyric poetry], a dirge tends to be shorter and less meditative than an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegy elegy]. See Christina Rossetti’s “[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=180634 A Dirge]” and Sir Philip Sidney’s “[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=174435 Ring Out Your Bells].”

[[Category: Music]]

[[Category: Music]]

[[Category: Religion]]

[[Category: Religion]]