epicedium
noun
a funeral song; dirge.
epicedia
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pluralof epicedium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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And this warmth of feeling becomes unmistakable in the epicedia on his father and his adopted son, and again in the poem addressed to his wife.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
And Martial's epitaphs and epicedia at their best have in their slight way an almost unique charm.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
Songs, hymns, elegies, epicedia, epithalamia—rhyme rules alike all the shadowy tribes.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
