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  • English Word Epigrammatizer Definition One who writes in an affectedly pointed style.
  • English Word Epigrammatizing Definition of Epigrammatize
  • English Word Epigrammist Definition An epigrammatist.
  • English Word Epigraph Definition Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.
  • English Word Epigraph Definition 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.
  • English Word Epigraphic Definition Alt. of Epigraphical
  • English Word Epigraphical Definition Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.
  • English Word Epigraphics Definition The science or study of epigraphs.
  • English Word Epigraphist Definition A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy.
  • English Word Epigraphy Definition The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.
  • English Word Epigynous Definition Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk.
  • English Word Epihyal Definition A segment next above the ceratohyal in the hyoidean arch.
  • English Word Epilepsy Definition The "falling sickness," so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles.
  • English Word Epileptic Definition Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy.
  • English Word Epileptic Definition One affected with epilepsy.
  • English Word Epileptic Definition A medicine for the cure of epilepsy.
  • English Word Epileptical Definition Epileptic.
  • English Word Epileptiform Definition Resembling epilepsy.
  • English Word Epileptogenous Definition Producing epilepsy or epileptoid convulsions; -- applied to areas of the body or of the nervous system, stimulation of which produces convulsions.
  • English Word Epileptoid Definition Resembling epilepsy; as, epileptoid convulsions.
  • English Word Epilogation Definition A summing up in a brief account.
  • English Word Epilogic Definition Alt. of Epilogical
  • English Word Epilogical Definition Of or pertaining to an epilogue.
  • English Word Epilogism Definition Enumeration; computation.
  • English Word Epilogistic Definition Of or pertaining to epilogue; of the nature of an epilogue.
  • English Word Epilogize Definition To speak an epilogue to; to utter as an epilogue.
  • English Word Epilogue Definition A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.
  • English Word Epilogue Definition The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion.
  • English Word Epiloguize Definition Same as Epilogize.
  • English Word Epimachus Definition A genus of highly ornate and brilliantly colored birds of Australia, allied to the birds of Paradise.