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Definition of Epitaphic
1. a. Pertaining to an epitaph; epitaphian.
Definition of Epitaphic
1. Adjective. Pertaining to an epitaph. ¹
2. Noun. (archaic) An epitaph. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Epitaphic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epitaphic
Literary usage of Epitaphic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Vicars of Rochdale by Francis Robert Raines (1883)
"AN epitaphic SATIRE, Intended to celebrate the Death of whenever that wish'd for
Event shall happen, and will answer for all the domineering, cruel-hearted, ..."
2. Elements and Science of English Versification by William Caswell Jones (1897)
"Our ancestors were given to epitaphic writing more than the writers of the present
day. ... An epitaphic stanza in iambics : Ere sin could blight 6r ..."
3. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1860)
"... by making use of " poetic fire " and " inspired frenzy " now going to waste,
or some Other instrumentality, of a reformation in epitaphic necrology. ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1864)
"His tombstone, with an epitaphic couplet, was erected by him in the parish
churchyard (where it may still be seen), and his coffin was used by him for a ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... «puffing like a steam-engine,» his hypocritical employer Casby, the humble
and worthy Pl'or- nishes, the love-blighted and epitaphic young John ..."
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