epitaphian
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epitaphian (comparative more epitaphian, superlative most epitaphian)
- Relating to, or of the nature of, an epitaph.
- Synonym: epitaphial
- 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 152:
- to imitate the noble Pericles in his Epitaphian Speech,