epitaphed
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]epitaphed (comparative more epitaphed, superlative most epitaphed)
- Having been described as the subject of an epitaph.
- 1904 January 30, The Public, number 304, page 673:
- Since William J. Bryan is politically dead, buried, epitaphed and forgotten, there is something puzzling about the consternation his declaration of political policy has created among the plutocratic politicians and newspapers of both parties who have killed, buried, epitaphed and forgotten him.
- 1985, The Poetry of Ezra Pound, page 55:
- It is ultimately in the spirit behind these lines that the heritage of Imagism, that much-epitaphed movement, is to be found.
- 2013, Andrzej Ciuk, Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, Exploring Space, page 44:
- Death as a sense-making termination of human life is made possible only on the condition of such presence; without it, we are doomed to live a spectral existence of those who are not only "buried alive" but whose lives remain totally sealed in and by incomprehension, "epitaphed with hieroglyphics".
- Having an inscribed epitaph.
- 1904, Abram Joseph Ryan, “Peace”, in The World's Best Poetry, page 453:
- What though no monument epitaphed Be built above each grave?
- 2008, William E. Woodruff, A Quirky Eye, page 137:
- Under an epitaphed marble slab in a nearby grassy cemetery a loved one rots .
- 2020, Sylvia E. Thornbush, Mary J. Thornbush, Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards, page 104:
- Average epitaph lengths and epitaphed headstone size according to three periods of time.
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]epitaphed
- simple past and past participle of epitaph