Word Direct Answers

What does "epitaph" mean?

Epitaph: A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis."

Additional senses

  1. 2.To commemorate by an epitaph. [R.] Let me be epitaphed the inventor of English hexameters. G. Harvey.
  2. 3.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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