Ep"i*taph (?), n. [F. 'epitaphe, L. epitaphium a funeral oration, fr. Gr. , orig. an adj., over or at a tomb; 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.
Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb.
Shak.
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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Ep"i*taph, v. t.
To commemorate by an epitaph.
[R.]
Let me be epitaphed the inventor of English hexameters.
G. Harvey.
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Ep"i*taph, v. i.
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."
Bp. Hall.
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