exequious

From exequy +‎ -ous?

exequious (comparative more exequious, superlative most exequious)

1. (obsolete) funereal
   • 1603, Michael Drayton, The Barons Wars, published 1753, page 123:

     Prepare yourself to build the funeral-pile,
     Lay your pale hands to this exequious fire,

• “exequious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.