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Grave words
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epitaph
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased. 2 A poem or other short text written in memory of a deceased person. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph. 2 (context transitive English) To ...
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Epitaph is a composition by jazz musician Charles Mingus . It is 4,235 measures long, takes more than two hours to perform, and was only completely discovered during the cataloguing process after his death. With the help of a grant from the Ford Foundation ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He wanted it as his epitaph and left it in a letter passed to his parents on his death. ▪ Her film replays in my head, as an epitaph to some one else's dream. ▪ It is a sad epitaph to Salvador Allende. ▪ It so happens that Parrhasios ...
Usage examples of epitaph.
The wall of polished marble crypts reflects me full-length among the epitaphs.
The relative indentations of Poems, Epitaphs, and Songs are as printed in the original book.
Strange epitaph for a strange year and no real point in explaining it either.
His epitaph in the mouths of those that remembered him would be, Comus Bassington, the boy who never came back.
This Epitaph is so exquisitely beautiful, that I remember even Lord Kames, strangely prejudiced as he was against Dr. Johnson, was compelled to allow it very high praise.
The following letters concerning an Epitaph which he wrote for the monument of Dr. Goldsmith, in Westminster-Abbey, afford at once a proof of his unaffected modesty, his carelessness as to his own writings, and of the great respect which he entertained for the taste and judgement of the excellent and eminent person to whom they are addressed: TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.
And with the same sad smile he looked round on the figures, some marble, some painted stone, of departed Brandons and Wylders, with garrulous epitaphs, who surrounded them in various costumes, quite a family group, in which the attorney was gratified to mingle.
And now, you world-savers, who reaped nothing in life And in death have neither stones nor epitaphs, How do you like your silence from mouths stopped With the dust of my triumphant career?
But later, as I lived among the people here, I knew how near to the life Were the epitaphs that were ordered for them as they died.
Sometimes during his daylight dog walks, when he was trying to think something through in his unresolved personal life or his confused work, he would read the epitaphs as carefully as a decoder, while Kitty sat pensively on the other end of the lead.
This Epitaph is so exquisitely beautiful, that I remember even Lord Kames, strangely prejudiced as he was against Dr.
Whether sincere or not, the official eulogies and epitaphs continue to attribute to our matrons those same virtues of industry, chastity, and sobriety which were demanded of them under the Republic.
So felt he who wrote the epitaph of the builder of the dome which looks down on the crosses and weathercocks that glitter over London.
I darted toward her, slapped her hands, blew on her eyelids, while I read this simple epitaph: 'Here lies Louis-Theodore Carrel, Captain of Marine Infantry, killed by the enemy at Tonquin.
The people of that period considered it indispensable to translate the whole world into a forest of Symbols, Hints, Equestrian Games, Masquerades, Paintings, Courtly Arms, Trophies, Blazons, Escutcheons, Ironic Figures, Sculpted Obverses of Coins, Fables, Allegories, Apologias, Epigrams, Riddles, Equivocations, Proverbs, Watchwords, Laconic Epistles, Epitaphs, Parerga, Lapidary Engravings, Shields, Glyphs, Clipei, and if I may, I will stop here—but they did not stop.