Definitions
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- adj. Pertaining to an epitaph.
- n. An epitaph.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Pertaining to an epitaph; epitaphian.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating to epitaphs; having the form or character of an epitaph.
- n. 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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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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You know that Greeks used the short form a great deal for their exquisite epitaphs, and that a considerable part of the anthology consists of epitaphic literature.
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Note: [2.4] Such the epitaphic comments, conflictingly spoken or thought, of a miscellaneous company, who, assembled
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Such the epitaphic comments, conflictingly spoken or thought, of a miscellaneous company, who, assembled on the overlooking, cross-wise balcony at the forward end of the upper deck near by, had not witnessed preceding occurrences.
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