Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Dirige

Dirige , noun

[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