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De - Pt| English Dictionary: epithet | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Epithet \Ep"i*thet\, n. [L. epitheton, Gr. [?], fr. [?] added, fr. [?] to add; 'epi` upon, to + [?] to put, place: cf. F. [82]pith[8a]te. See {Do}.] 1. An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn. A prince [Henry III.] to whom the epithet [bd]worthless[b8] seems best applicable. --Hallam. 2. Term; expression; phrase. [bd]Stiffed with epithets of war.[b8] --Shak. Syn: {Epithet}, {Title}. Usage: The name epithet was formerly extended to nouns which give a title or describe character (as the [bd]epithet of liar[b8]), but is now confined wholly to adjectives. Some rhetoricians, as Whately, restrict it still further, considering the term epithet as belonging only to a limited class of adjectives, viz., those which add nothing to the sense of their noun, but simply hold forth some quality necessarily implied therein; as, the bright sun, the lofty heavens, etc. But this restriction does not prevail in general literature. Epithet is sometimes confounded with application, which is always a noun or its equivalent. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Epithet \Ep"i*thet\, v. t. To describe by an epithet. [R.] Never was a town better epitheted. --Sir H. Wotton. | |
