How to pronounce“epitaph”in English
I have not run out of ideas. As a matter of fact, Sir Tim, I joke that his like
epitaph on his gravestone, which he's like, "I don't even need a gravestone. I don't I don't care about that." But I always joke that his epitaph is up for
anything. Like I can't come up with something that guy wouldn't be willing to try with me. And I keep coming up with stuff and he keeps being a yes.
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Definitions of “epitaph”
An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased.
“The church itself, or at all events the squat and tiny tower, has not altered much since Lamb saw it. But the epitaphs have gone. Search among the ivies and yews of the shady little churchyard will discover a number of flat, weatherworn slabs of stone, but the verses and the signatures have vanished.”
A poem or other short text written in memory of a deceased person.
“Nam vinci in amore turpissimum putant, not only living, but when their friends are dead, with tombs and monuments, nenias, epitaphs, elegies, inscriptions, pyramids, obelisks, statues, images, pictures, histories, poems, annals, feasts, anniversaries, many ages after (as Plato's scholars did) they will parentare still, omit no good office that may tend to the preservation of their names, honours, and eternal memory.”
To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
“The Commons in their speeches epitaph upon him […] "He lived as a wolf and died as a dog."”
To commemorate by an epitaph.
“Let me rather be epitaphed the inventor of the English Hexameter.”
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