different between orbituary vs obituary

English

Adjective

orbituary (not comparable)

1. (archaic) orbital
   • 1828, American Medical Recorder (volumes 13-14, page 328)

     It would be impossible, while the sun or electric body remained unaltered, and these planets retained their primary condition, that their axillary and orbituary motions, and distances from the centre, should ever change through an endless succession of ages.

   • 1907, Official gazette of the United States Patent Office

     In an engine, the combination of an expansion-chamber and piston therefor, means supporting said chamber and piston for orbituary movement […]

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin obituarius, from Latin obitus (“a going to a place, approach, usually a going down, setting (as of the sun), fall, ruin, death”), from obire (“to go or come to, usually go down, set, fall, perish, die”), from ob (“toward, to”) + ire (“to go”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??b?tj????/, /????b?tj????/, /??b?tj???i?/, /????b?tj???i?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??b?t?u???i/, /o??b?t?u???i/, /??b?t???i/, /o??b?t???i/

Noun

obituary (plural obituaries)

1. A brief notice of a person’s death, as published in a newspaper.
   • 2007, Bridget Fowler, The Obituary as Collective Memory, Routledge (?ISBN)

     Obituary editors are confronted daily with the need to make delicate hermeneutic interpretations of the social meaning of individuals' deaths and to express these powerfully to their readership.

2. A biography of a recently deceased person, written by a journalist and published in a newspaper.
3. A register of deaths in a monastery.

Related terms

• obit
• obitual
• obituarist

Translations

See also

• necrology (listing of people who have died during a specific period of time)

Adjective

obituary (not comparable)

1. Relating to the death of a person.

Further reading

• obituary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• obituary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• obituary at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “obituary”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.