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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A short poem or speech spoken directly to the audience following the conclusion of a play.
  2. n. The performer who delivers such a short poem or speech.
  3. n. A short addition or concluding section at the end of a literary work, often dealing with the future of its characters. Also called afterword.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In rhetoric, the conclusion or closing part of a discourse or oration; the peroration. The office of the epilogue is not merely to avoid an abrupt close and provide a formal termination, but to confirm and increase the effect of what has been said, and leave the hearer as favorably disposed as possible to the speaker's cause and unfavorably to that of his opponents. Accordingly, an epilogue in its more complete form consists of two divisions— a repetition of the principal points previously treated, and
  2. n. In dramatic or narrative writing, a concluding address; a winding up of the subject; specifically, in spoken dramas, a closing piece or speech, usually in verse, addressed by one or more of the performers to the audience.
  3. To epilogize.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A short speech, spoken directly at the audience at the end of a play
  2. n. The performer who gives this speech
  3. n. A brief oration or script at the end of a literary piece; an afterword
  4. n. computing A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to return from a routine.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Drama) A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.
  2. n. (Rhet.) The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play
  2. n. a short passage added at the end of a literary work

Etymologies

  1. From French épilogue, from Latin epilogus, from Ancient Greek ἐπίλογος (epilogos, "a conclusion, peroration of a speech, epilogue of a play"), from ἐπιλέγειν (epilegein, "say in addition"), from ἐπί (epi, "in addition") + λέγειν (legein, "to say"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English epiloge, from Old French epilogue, from Latin epilogus, from Greek epilogos, conclusion of a speech : epi-, epi- + logos, word, speech; see leg- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • frindley ROSALIND. It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue. If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue. Yet to good wine they do use good bushes; and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am neither a good epilogue, nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play! I am not furnish'd like a beggar; therefore to beg will not become me. My way is to conjure you; and I'll begin with the women. I charge you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as please you; and I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women - as I perceive by your simp'ring none of you hates them - that between you and the women the play may please. If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleas'd me, complexions that lik'd me, and breaths that I defied not; and, I am sure, as many as have good beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths, will, for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.
    (As You Like It) Oct 1, 2008

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