Epitaph /(?)/
Ep·i·taph
Epitaph
n.
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An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription.
Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb.
- A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: “Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis.”
Epitaph
v. t.
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To commemorate by an epitaph. [R.]
Let me be epitaphed the inventor of English hexameters.
Epitaph
v. i.
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To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph. [R.]
The common in their speeches epitaph upon him . . . “He lived as a wolf and died as a dog.”