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<hw>E*pis`to*lo*graph"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ : cf. F. <ets>\'82pistolographique</ets>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to the writing of letters; used in writing letters; epistolary.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>Epistolographic character</col> &or; <col>mode of writing</col></mcol>, <cd>the same as <cref>Demotic character</cref>. See under <er>Demotic</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Epistolography</h1> <Xpage=503>

<hw>E*pis`to*log"ra*phy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ epistle + <ets>-graphy</ets>: cf. F. <ets>\'82pistolographie</ets>.]</ety> <def>The art or practice of writing epistles.</def>

<h1>Epistoma, Epistome</h1> <Xpage=503>

<hw><hw>E*pis"to*ma</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Ep"i*stome</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL. <ets>epistoma</ets>, fr. Gr. <?/ upon + <?/, <?/, mouth.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The region between the antenn\'91 and the mouth, in Crustacea.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A liplike organ that covers the mouth, in most Bryozoa. See <i>Illust</i>., under <er>Entoprocta</er>.</def>

<h1>Epistrophe</h1> <Xpage=503>

<hw>E*pis"tro*phe</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., from Gr. <?/ a turning toward, return, fr. <?/ to turn toward; <?/ upon, to + <?/ to turn.]</ety> <fld>(Rhet.)</fld> <def>A figure in which successive clauses end with the same word or affirmation; <it>e. g.</it>, "Are they Hebrews? <i>so am I</i>. Are they Israelites? <i>so am I</i>."</def>

<i>2 Cor. xi. 22.</i>

<h1>Epistyle</h1> <Xpage=503>

<hw>Ep"i*style</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>epistylium</ets>, Gr. <?/; <?/ upon + <?/ column: cf. F. <ets>\'82pistyle</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Anc. Arch.)</fld> <def>A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called <i>architrave</i>.</def>

<h1>Episyllogism</h1> <Xpage=503>

<hw>Ep`i*syl"lo*gism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>epi-</ets> + <ets>syllogism</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Logic)</fld> <def>A syllogism which assumes as one of its premises a proposition which was the conclusion of a preceding syllogism, called, in relation to this, the prosyllogism.</def>

<h1>Epitaph</h1> <Xpage=503>

<hw>Ep"i*taph</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>\'82pitaphe</ets>, L. <ets>epitaphium</ets> a funeral oration, fr. Gr. <?/, orig. an adj., over or at a tomb; <?/ upon + <?/ tomb. Cf. <er>Cenotaph</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription.</def>

<blockquote>Hang her an <b>epitaph</b> upon her tomb. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis."</def>

<h1>Epitaph</h1> <Xpage=503>

<hw>Ep"i*taph</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To commemorate by an epitaph.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Let me be <b>epitaphed</b> the inventor of English hexameters. <i>G. Harvey.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Epitaph</h1> <Xpage=503>

<hw>Ep"i*taph</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>The common in their speeches <b>epitaph</b> upon him . . . "He lived as a wolf and died as a dog." <i>Bp. Hall.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Epitapher</h1> <Xpage=503>

<hw>Ep"i*taph`er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A writer of epitaphs.</def>

<i>Nash.</i>

<h1>Epitaphial, Epitaphian</h1> <Xpage=503>