a. [ad. L. commorient-em, pr. pple. of commori to die with, f. com- + mori to die.] Dying together; in Astrol. of or pertaining to simultaneous death. Obs.
1646. Buck, Rich. III., 86. (R.). The same compatient and commorient fates and times.
b. as sb. 1730–36 Bailey (folio), Commorients, persons dying together, at the same time.
1773. in Ash.
1870. [S. K. Hoshour], Letters to Squire Pedant in the East, 65. Should my mari and I enjoy consenescence, and be nearly commorient, and my obital period antevene his, then, my desideratum is, to be debonairly funerated in a feateous requietory.
1888. Coote, Com. Form Probate Pract. (ed. 10), 222. If the commorient … has left a Will it must be proved.
