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."
Epitaph
(Ep"i*taph), v. t. To commemorate by an epitaph. [R.]
Let me be epitaphed the inventor of English hexameters.
G. Harvey. Epitaph
(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. Epitapher
(Ep"i*taph`er) n. A writer of epitaphs. Nash.
Epitaphial
(Ep`i*taph"i*al Ep`i*taph"i*an) a. Relating to, or of the nature of, an epitaph.
The noble Pericles in his epitaphian speech.
Milton.
Epitaphial Latin verses are not to be taken too literally.
Lowell. Epitaphic
(Ep`i*taph"ic) a. Pertaining to an epitaph; epitaphian. — n. An epitaph. Udall.
Epitaphist
(Ep"i*taph`ist) n. An epitapher.
Epitasis
(||E*pit"a*sis) n. [NL., fr. Gr. a stretching, fr. to stretch upon or over; 'epi` upon + to stretch.]
1. That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; —
opposed to protasis.
2. (Med.) The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm. Dunglison.
Epithalamic
(Ep`i*tha*lam"ic) a. Belonging to, or designed for, an epithalamium.
Epithalamium
(Ep`i*tha*la"mi*um) n.; pl. Epithalamiums L. Epithalamia [L., fr. Gr. , orig. an adj.,
nuptial; 'epi` upon, at + bride chamber.] A nuptial song, or poem in honor of the bride and bridegroom.
The kind of poem which was called epithalamium . . . sung when the bride was led into her chamber.
B. Jonson. Epithalamy
(Ep`i*thal"a*my) n.; pl. Epithalamies Epithalamium. [R.] Donne.
Epitheca
(||Ep`i*the"ca) n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'epi` upon + a case, box, fr. to place.] (Zoöl.) A continuous
and, usually, structureless layer which covers more or less of the exterior of many corals.
Epithelial
(Ep`i*the"li*al) a. Of or pertaining to epithelium; as, epithelial cells; epithelial cancer.
Epithelioid
(Ep`i*the"li*oid) a. [Epithelium + -oid.] (Anat.) Like epithelium; as, epithelioid cells.
Epithelioma
(||Ep`i*the`li*o"ma) n. [NL. See Epithelium, and -oma.] (Med.) A malignant growth containing
epithelial cells; — called also epithelial cancer.
Epithelium
(Ep`i*the"li*um) n.; pl. E. Epitheliums L. Epithelia [NL., fr. Gr. 'epi` upon + nipple.] (Anat.)
The superficial layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts,
