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  • English Word Epistolize Definition To write epistles.
  • English Word Epistolizer Definition A writer of epistles.
  • English Word Epistolographic Definition Pertaining to the writing of letters; used in writing letters; epistolary.
  • English Word Epistolography Definition The art or practice of writing epistles.
  • English Word Epistoma Definition Alt. of Epistome
  • English Word Epistome Definition The region between the antennae and the mouth, in Crustacea.
  • English Word Epistome Definition A liplike organ that covers the mouth, in most Bryozoa. See Illust., under Entoprocta.
  • English Word Epistrophe Definition A figure in which successive clauses end with the same word or affirmation; e. g., "Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I."
  • English Word Epistyle Definition A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.
  • English Word Episyllogism Definition 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.
  • English Word Epitaph Definition An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription.
  • English Word Epitaph Definition A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis."
  • English Word Epitaph Definition To commemorate by an epitaph.
  • English Word Epitaph Definition To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
  • English Word Epitapher Definition A writer of epitaphs.
  • English Word Epitaphial Definition Alt. of Epitaphian
  • English Word Epitaphian Definition Relating to, or of the nature of, an epitaph.
  • English Word Epitaphic Definition Pertaining to an epitaph; epitaphian.
  • English Word Epitaphic Definition An epitaph.
  • English Word Epitaphist Definition An epitapher.
  • English Word Epitasis Definition That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis.
  • English Word Epitasis Definition The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.
  • English Word Epithalamia Definition of Epithalamium
  • English Word Epithalamic Definition Belonging to, or designed for, an epithalamium.
  • English Word Epithalamies Definition of Epithalamy
  • English Word Epithalamium Definition A nuptial song, or poem in honor of the bride and bridegroom.
  • English Word Epithalamiums Definition of Epithalamium
  • English Word Epithalamy Definition Epithalamium.
  • English Word Epitheca Definition A continuous and, usually, structureless layer which covers more or less of the exterior of many corals.
  • English Word Epithelia Definition of Epithelium