Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An epithet.
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Examples
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In this context, śiva retains its original meaning as an adjective meaning “auspicious, benign, friendly”, a euphemistic epitheton of Rudra.
Om Namah Shiva !!! « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton appertaining to thy young days, which we may nominate tender.
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We have, though only negatively and indirectly, his own view of the matter, if, that is, it may be deduced from the fact that he has more than once tried to attach this _epitheton ornans_ to the memory of his grandfather.
William of Germany Stanley Shaw
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I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton appertaining to thy young days, which we may nominate tender.
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We have, though only negatively and indirectly, his own view of the matter, if, that is, it may be deduced from the fact that he has more than once tried to attach this epitheton ornans to the memory of his grandfather.
William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913
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The writing being a purely ideographic form, an _epitheton ornans_, the question of how the ideographs are to be read is not of great moment.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891
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I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton appertaining to thy young days, which we may nominate tender.
Love's Labour's Lost 1594
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Mater commune Dea - rum epitheton, ut patcr Deo - xura, Adhibere in auxilium, im - plorare.
P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812
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Lon-* gus sollemne anni epitheton. auccores suqs, quoa va # $7.
P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812
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Sic pro £VirXonafx. ov reponendum censui, qnod in scholiaste est, et mari nullo modo con - venire potest; svKXoifxog vero, sicut vXdifjLio?, aptum est epitheton maris.
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