Found 3 items, similar to epitaph.
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Definition: epitaph
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: epitaph
epitaph
n 1: an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the
person buried there
2: a summary statement of commemoration for a dead person
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Epitaph
Epitaph
\Ep"i*taph\, n. [F. ['e]pitaphe, L. epitaphium a funeral
oration, fr. Gr. ?, orig. an adj., over or at a tomb; 'epi`
upon + ? tomb. Cf.
Cenotaph.]
1. An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or
commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral
inscription.
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Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb. --Shak.
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2. A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a
monument, as that concerning Alexander:
“Sufficit huic
tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis.”
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Epitaph
\Ep"i*taph\, v. t.
To commemorate by an epitaph. [R.]
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Let me be epitaphed the inventor of English hexameters.
--G. Harvey.
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Epitaph
\Ep"i*taph\, v. i.
To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph. [R.]
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The common in their speeches epitaph upon him . . .
“He lived as a wolf and died as a dog.” --Bp. Hall.
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