Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of inscriptions; epigraphy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science or study of epigraphs.
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- noun The science or study of
epigraphs .
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Examples
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His classification of five thousand inscriptions, both Christian and heathen, in the Galleria Lapidaria at the Vatican, is a masterpiece, and earned for him the honorary title of "Restorer" of Latin epigraphics [ "Inscriptiones (only preserved in Manuscript) christianæ Latinæ et Græcæ ævi Milliarii conlegit digessit adnotationibusque auxit Caietanus Marinus a Bibliotheca Vaticana item
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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