Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dirige"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dirige \Dir"i*ge\, n. [L. See {Dirge}.]
A service for the dead, in the Roman Catholic Church, being
the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is
the first word; a dirge.
Evensongs and placebo and dirige. --Wyclif.
Resort, I pray you, unto my sepulture To sing my dirige
with great devotion. --Lamentation
of Mary
Magdalene.
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