Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
epicedium .
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- noun Plural form of
epicede .
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Examples
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And this warmth of feeling becomes unmistakable in the _epicedia_ on his father and his adopted son, and again in the poem addressed to his wife.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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And Martial's epitaphs and epicedia at their best have in their slight way an almost unique charm.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Many epicedia, or copies of verfes in praife of him after his death, were publifhed by the Arab poets of that age; the beft of which feems to have been one written by Shablo'ddawla, preferred by Abu'l-Faraj *.
The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time; 1780
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'epithalamia,' he wrote and printed 'epicedia,' a mistake which he corrected with the greatest coolness on the following day thus: 'For
Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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