epicedium
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epicedia
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Origin of epicedium
1580–90; < New Latin < Greek epikḗdeion, noun use of neuter of epikḗdeios of a funeral, equivalent to epi- epi- + kēde- (stem of kêdos care, sorrow) + -ios adj. suffix
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The Tears of Peace, which contains his finest work, is in honour of Prince Henry—a worthy work on a worthy subject, which was followed up later by an epicedium on the prince's lamented death.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
Or what is the merit of the ensuing epicedium?
From Early Reviews of English Poets by John Louis Haney
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
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