epitaphial
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]epitaphial (comparative more epitaphial, superlative most epitaphial)
- Synonym of epitaphian
- 1876, James Russell Lowell, “Dante”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, footnote ‡, page 16:
- [E]pitaphial Latin verses are not to be taken too literally, considering the exigencies of that branch of literary ingenuity.