Epitaphologist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Epitaphologist is a noun meaning (rare) One who studies epitaphs.
Meaning
(rare) One who studies epitaphs.
Example Sentences
The old stones, covered by wild dill and skunk cabbage, are an epitaphologist’s delight.
In a collection of epitaphs, the epitaphologist Lady Johnson-Ferguson noted that this was to be found upon a stone near Scotland’s highest railway station at Dalnaspidal.
Sir—The verse that puzzled your epitaphologist (“The inevitable hour”, December 23rd): / We dance round in a ring and suppose / But the secret sits in the middle and knows / is one of Robert Frost’s stray, whimsical couplets.
One indication of this are proverbs: “lying like an epitaph,” if no longer current, certainly was proverbial in the nineteenth century and earlier in the twentieth, in English, French, and Italian as frequent references in the “epitaphologist” literature indicate.
Word Forms
- epitaphologists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include epitaphic, epitaphy, epigrammatist, epigrammist, epithetry, panegyrist.
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