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Necrology

Necrology \Ne*crol"o*gy\, n.; pl. Necrologies. [Gr. nekro`s a dead person + -logy: cf. F. n['e]crologie. See Necromancy.] An account of deaths, or of the dead; a register of deaths; a collection of obituary notices.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
necrology

"register of deaths, obituary," 1705, from necro- + -logy.

Wiktionary
necrology

n. 1 (context church history English) A church register containing the names of those connected with the church who have died. 2 A listing of people who have died during a specific period of time. 3 A notice of death; an obituary. 4 The study of death or the dead.

WordNet
necrology
  1. n. a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography [syn: obituary, obit]

  2. a list of people who died recently

Wikipedia
Necrology (EP)

Necrology is an EP by Swedish goregrind band General Surgery. The first press, released as 7" vinyl, includes only the first 5 tracks.

Re-released in 1993 by Nuclear Blast as cd in a "poster bag" format with a poster holding the lyrics on one side and the cover art on the other. Includes a sticker. Underground Series limited to 2,000 copies. It came with two bonus tracks.

Reissued and re-mastered in 2011 with different (orange colored) artwork, the bonus tracks from the 1993 re-release, and the following bonus tracks from the 1990 demo Pestisferous Anthropophagia.

The song "The Succulent Aftermath of a Subdural Hemorrhage" appears on the compilation 5 Years Nuclear Blast, 1993.

Usage examples of "necrology".

William knew about necrology, including what went on in funeral homes.

A cell in Fontevrault and ultimately an enrollment in its necrology should have satisfied a captive queen of fifty-three, whose path in life had led her in any case to seclusion from the world.

Professor Podvolotsky of the Naval Academy, mentioned in the necrology, is the grandfather of one of our girls.

The idea of a Pantheon predated the Revolution, and a number of projects of the 1770s listed the same worthies who had figured in the necrologies and medallic histories: Turenne, Colbert, Lamoignon.