Meaning of epithetise | Babel Free

Definitions

Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de épithétiser.

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Examples

“If I thought our very worthy chairman would smile⟳ on having a tragedy put⟳ into his hands by one who paid much attention to so dry, heavy — or how shall we epithetise it? — a subject or science as statistics or political economy, surely I cannot expect⟳ less from our very worthy croupier, on having a comedy, forsooth, put⟳ into his hands by the same student of the dry or heavy, but that he should laugh⟳ fairly and broadly out.”

“And if Peter can so epithetise the psalmist David with propriety, why may not Matthew apply⟳ the same epithet to the psalmist Asaph ?”

“France might well in after years look⟳ back with melancholy pride upon that brilliant period and epithetise the central figure⟳ as “la Grande Monarque'; for much as it is now the fashion to sneer at that agnomen, Louis was in those days a great king.”

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