The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope.
A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.
The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use.
Generally, the manifestations are attributed to a deceased person, known or unknown to the sitters.
The medium, of whom I spoke a little while ago, has several times had the impression that a deceased person unknown to him, but known to me, entered his bedroom.
As previously indicated, this intelligence, as a rule, claims to be the soul of a deceased person.
Once Mr. Oldfield so terrified a native by shouting out the name of a deceased person, that the man fairly took to his heels and did not venture to show himself again for several days.
A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
Australian natives believe that a deceased person is malevolent for a long time after death, and the more nearly related the more he is feared.
At the earlier stages of civilisation the property of a deceased person is not in every case subject to this rule.
It was contended that the principle on which hearsay evidence is admitted would extend to anything written by a deceased person.
They thus become analogous to words spoken—to representations made and conversations held—by a deceased person, the proper object of hearsay evidence.
As to other writings of a deceased person, such as letters, I do not say these may not become admissible as evidence by reason of death, though during life they could not be used.
Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.
I conjecture that a current of influence may be started by a deceased person, which, however, only becomes strong enough to be perceptible to its object when reinforced by some vivid current of emotion arising in living minds.
Briefly, then, the popular view regards a "ghost" as a deceased personpermitted by Providence to hold communication with survivors.
In other cases the "psychical invasion" of the spirit either of a living or of a deceased person seems to set up a variety of sleep-waking states--both in agent and percipient.
In the second place, we have no warrant for the assumption that the phantom seen, even though it be somehow caused by a deceased person, is that deceased person, in any ordinary sense of the word.
Once Mr. Oldfield so terrified a native by shouting out the name of a deceased person, that the man fairly took to his heels and did not venture to shew himself again for several days.
Amongst the Wintun, also of California, if some one in a group of merry talkers inadvertently mentions the name of a deceased person, "straightway there falls upon all an awful silence.
A bill for a physician’s services constitutes a claim against the estate of a deceased person, like any other debt.
In the works of the early dramatists, and by some writers of fiction, it has been stated, or implied, that the body of a deceased person could be seized and detained to compel the payment of his debts.
A very much higher legacy duty might be charged in the case of large sums passing on death to persons other than the widow, direct descendants, or other near relatives of a deceased person.
The death duties, especially where a deceased person leaves a large family, already cause much hardship.
The Letters, as will be seen from the Preface, were published as the work of a deceased person.
When I projected the translation of the book, I believed it to be, what the title announces, The Letters of a deceased Person.
The laws enjoin the most scrupulous fulfilment of such dispositions of a deceased person; however extravagant they may be, they must be executed.
Long possession which has begun to run in favour of a deceased person continues to run on in favour of his heir or praetorian successor, even though he knows that the land belongs to another person.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deceased person" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
