Part 3861

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The style of the epigram.</def>

<blockquote>Antithesis, <it>i. e</it>., bilateral stroke, is the soul of <b>epigram</b> in its later and technical signification. <i>B. Cracroft.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Epigrammatic, Epigrammatical</h1> <Xpage=501>

<hw><hw>Ep`i*gram*mat"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Ep`i*gram*mat"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw><ety>[L. <ets>epigrammaticus</ets>: cf. F. <ets>\'82pigrammatique</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; <as>as, an <ex>epigrammatical</ex> poet</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; pointed; piquant; <as>as, <ex>epigrammatic</ex> style, wit, or sallies of fancy</as>.</def>

<h1>Epigrammatically</h1> <Xpage=501>

<hw>Ep`i*gram*mat"ic*al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style.</def>

<h1>Epigrammatist</h1> <Xpage=501>

<hw>Ep`i*gram"ma*tist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>epigrammatista</ets>: cf. F. <ets>\'82pigrammatiste</ets>.]</ety> <def>One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them.</def>

<blockquote>The brisk <b>epigrammatist</b> showing off his own cleverness. <i>Holmes.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Epigrammatize</h1> <Xpage=501>

<hw>Ep`i*gram"ma*tize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Epigrammatized</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Epigrammatizing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <def>To represent by epigrams; to express by epigrams.</def>

<h1>Epigrammatizer</h1> <Xpage=501>

<hw>Ep`i*gram"ma*ti`zer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who writes in an affectedly pointed style.</def>

<blockquote><b>Epigrammatizers</b> of our English prose style. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Epigrammist</h1> <Xpage=501>

<hw>Ep"i*gram`mist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An epigrammatist.</def>

<i>Jer. Taylor.</i>

<h1>Epigraph</h1> <Xpage=501>

<hw>Ep"i*graph</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/, fr. <?/: cf. F. <ets>\'82pigraphe</ets>. See <er>Epigram</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Literature)</fld> <def>A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.</def>

<h1>Epigraphic, Epigraphical</h1> <Xpage=501>

<hw><hw>Ep`i*graph"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Ep`i*graph"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; <as>as, an <ex>epigraphic</ex> style; <ex>epigraphical</ex> works or studies.</as></def>

<h1>Epigraphics</h1> <Xpage=501>

<hw>Ep`i*graph"ics</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The science or study of epigraphs.</def>