epigrammatize

American

[ep-i-gram-uh-tahyz] / ˌɛp ɪˈgræm əˌtaɪz /

especially British, epigrammatise

verb (used with object)

epigrammatized, epigrammatizing

to express in epigrams.
to make epigrams about (a person or thing).

verb (used without object)

epigrammatized, epigrammatizing

to make epigrams.

epigrammatize British

/ ˌɛpɪˈɡræməˌtaɪz /

verb

to make an epigram or epigrams (about)

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Etymology

Origin of epigrammatize

1685–95; < Greek epigrammatízein; see epigrammatic + -ize

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Dr. Johnson epigrammatized Spenser's indictment into "There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail," but I think it loses in pathos more than it gains in point.

From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell

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