(Lat.) signifies a funeral solemnity, or office for the dead, most commonly performed when the corpse lies in the church uninterred: Also the anniversary of office, (2 Cro. 51 Dyer 313.). The anniversary of any person's death was called the obit; and to observe such day with prayers and alms, or other commemoration, was the keeping of the obit. In religious houses they had a register, wherein they entered the obits or obitual days of their founders and benefactors; which was thence termed the obituary. The tenure of obit or chantry lands is taken away and extinct by 1 Edw. VI. c. 14. and 15 Car. II. c. 9.