I. -chəˌwerē, -chər-, -ri noun
( -es )
Etymology: Medieval Latin obituarium, from Latin obitus death + -arium
1.
a. : a record or notice of a person's death
b. : a usually short account of the significant aspects and accomplishments of a person's life published (as in a newspaper) upon the person's death
2. : something suggesting an obituary in signaling or seeming to signal the end or death of an enterprise or plan
II. adjective
: of, relating to, or recording the death of a person or persons