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"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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