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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A funeral song or discourse; an epicedium.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An elegy; an ode to someone deceased.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A funeral song or discourse; an elegy.

Examples

  • “_The Terrace at Berne_ has been already dealt with, but that mood for epicede, which was so frequent in Mr Arnold, finds in the _Carnac_ stanzas adequate, and in _A Southern Night_ consummate, expression.”

    Matthew Arnold

  • “Elegy or litany, epicede or epithalamium, his work is always a song-writer's; nothing more, but nothing less, than the work of the greatest song-writer -- as surely as”

    The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2

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