ep|i|taph

ep|i|taph
ep|i|taph «EHP uh taf, -tahf», noun, verb,
–n.
1. a short statement in memory of a dead person. It is often put on a gravestone or tomb. »

Let no man write my epitaph (Robert Emmet).

2. Figurative. any writing resembling such an inscription: »

The extraordinary thing about this biography is that it reads…as an epitaph to that second phase in Canadian history which ended in 1957 (Canadian Saturday Night).

–v.t.
to commemorate in an epitaph: »

After he is dead and buried, And epitaphed (James Russell Lowell).

╂[< Latin epitaphium < Greek epitáphion, neuter, funeral oration < epi- at + táphos tomb, funeral rites]

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