EP'ITAPH, n. [Gr. a sepulcher.] 1. An inscription on a monument, in honor or memory of the dead.The epitaphs of the present day are crammed with fulsome compliments never merited.Can you look forward to the honor of a decorated coffin, a splendid funeral, a towering monument--it may be a lying epitaph.2. An eulogy, in prose or verse, composed without any intent to be engraven on a monument, as that on Alexander:"Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis."
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