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Webster 1913 Edition

thanatopsis

thanˊa-top′sis

(thănˊȧ-tŏp′sĭs)

,

Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

θάνατοσ

death +

ὄψισ

view.]

A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death.

Bryant.