English▸ noun
(plural obituaries)
a notice of a death, especially in a newspaper, typically including a brief biography of the deceased person: his obituary of Samuel Beckett
[as modifier] an obituary notice
it is premature to write the obituary of British science figurative.
– ORIGIN early 18th century: from medieval Latin obituarius, from Latin obitus ‘death’, from obit- ‘perished’, from the verb obire.