Epithetize

Quick meaning: Epithetize is a verb meaning To name using an epithet.

Meaning

To name using an epithet.

More Meanings

1. To disparage by means of an epithet.

Example Sentences

[…] led the Colonial Reformers such as Charles Buller to epithetize him as Mr . Oversecretary or Mr . Mothercountry .

But unfortunately all that his long-winded explanation amounts to is unconvincing rationalization by its tendency to epithetize a counter argument.

To be sure, the fundamental tenets of honesty remain immutable; but business practices change—voluntarily or by legal compulsion. Therefore, to stigmatize or epithetize the operation in the setting of today would not only be unfair to the defendants, but it would unjustly discolor a view of the case.

You mean, Randy, those primitive religions in which the celebrants of the feast sacrifice a 'queen' bi-annually to propitiate unnatural forces like the sort of cannibalism which 'The Beatht,' as you so cunningly epithetize yon Moor, has been rumored to practice upon certain select and fortunate priestesses of the flesh?

Word Forms

• epithetizes
• epithetizing
• epithetized
• epithetise

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include epithet, eponymize, epitaphize, epitomate, epithalamize, designate.

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