Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to epitaphs; having the form or character of an epitaph.
- noun An epitaph.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to an epitaph; epitaphian.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to an
epitaph . - noun archaic An
epitaph .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It would be easy to describe Dick Cheney's recent assessment of his time in office as the epitaphic bluster of a deeply failed man.
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It would be easy to describe Dick Cheney's recent assessment of his time in office as the epitaphic bluster of a deeply failed man.
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It would be easy to describe Dick Cheney's recent assessment of his time in office as the epitaphic bluster of a deeply failed man.
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Remember, you're the ones who threw the first, epitaphic stones.
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Remember, you\'re the ones who threw the first, epitaphic stones.
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Remember, you're the ones who threw the first, epitaphic stones.
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_Lessus in funere Raphaelis Thorei_; _Carina Caro_; and minor pieces, occasional and epitaphic.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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I think, perhaps, this means something more than the epitaphic literature we Canadians are wont to select out of the stock-book belonging to the monument builders.
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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If the epitaphic form gave added novelty I must confess that the idea was suggested to me by the Greek Anthology.
Toward the Gulf Edgar Lee Masters 1909
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At every turn of the leaves, paragons of filial piety shame the youthful reader to the pitch of emulation by the epitaphic records of their deeds.
The Soul of the Far East Percival Lowell 1885
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