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epigraph
[ ep-i-graf, -grahf ]
noun
- an inscription, especially on a building, statue, or the like.
- an apposite quotation at the beginning of a book, chapter, etc.
epigraph
/ ˌɛpɪˈɡræfɪk; ˈɛpɪˌɡrɑːf; -ˌɡræf /
noun
- a quotation at the beginning of a book, chapter, etc, suggesting its theme
- an inscription on a monument or building
Derived Forms
- epigraphic, adjective
- ˌepiˈgraphically, adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of epigraph1
Example Sentences
Richie Havens, 72 Who opened Woodstock, and thus became the epigraph to the ultimate document of the 1960s?
The author quotes Shelby Foote for the epigraph: “Southerners are very strange about that war.”
But the presidential narrator—and perhaps Giscard himself—reply in the epigraph: “Promise kept.”
The verse you chose as an epigraph is altogether beneath criticism.
It bears this Epigraph, "Ecce Ego admirationem faciam populo huic, miraculo grandi et stupendo."
Fortunately they possessed Dumouchel's work on mnemonics, a duodecimo in boards with this epigraph: "To instruct while amusing."
When there is no epigraph upon which to depend the most skilful archæologist may here make mistakes.
A fact that is of botanic interest is to be met with here in the epigraph below the organ to Francesco Calceolari.
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