Antithesis, i. e., bilateral stroke, is the soul of epigram in its later and technical signification.
B. Cracroft.
{ Ep`i*gram*mat"ic (?), Ep`i*gram*mat"ic*al (?), }[L. epigrammaticus: cf. F. épigrammatique.] 1. Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an epigrammatical poet.
2. Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; pointed; piquant; as, epigrammatic style, wit, or sallies of fancy.
Ep`i*gram*mat"ic*al*ly, adv. In the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style.
Ep`i*gram"ma*tist (?), n. [L. epigrammatista: cf. F. épigrammatiste.] One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them.
The brisk epigrammatist showing off his own cleverness.
Holmes.
Ep`i*gram"ma*tize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Epigrammatized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Epigrammatizing (?).] To represent by epigrams; to express by epigrams.
Ep`i*gram"ma*ti`zer (?), n. One who writes in an affectedly pointed style.
Epigrammatizers of our English prose style.
Coleridge.
Ep"i*gram`mist (?), n. An epigrammatist. Jer. Taylor.
Ep"i*graph (?), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?;: cf. F. épigraphe. See Epigram.] 1. Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.
2. (Literature) A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.
{ Ep`i*graph"ic (?), Ep`i*graph"ic*al (?), } a. Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.
Ep`i*graph"ics (?), n. The science or study of epigraphs.
E*pig"ra*phist (?), n. A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy.
E*pig"ra*phy (?), n. The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.
E*pig"y*nous (?), a. [Pref. epi- + Gr. &?; woman, female: cf. F. épigyne.] (Bot.) Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk.
Ep`i*hy"al (?), n. [Pref. epi- + the Greek letter &?;.] (Anat.) A segment next above the ceratohyal in the hyoidean arch.
Ep"i*lep`sy (?), n. [L. epilepsia, Gr. &?; a seizure, the "falling sickness," fr. &?; to take besides, seize, attack; 'epi` upon, besides + &?; to take: cf. F. épilepsie. Cf. Catalepsy.] (Med.) The "falling sickness," so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles. Dunglison.
Ep`i*lep"tic (?), a. [L. epilepticus, Gr. &?; : cf. F. épileptique.] Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy.
Ep`i*lep"tic, n. 1. One affected with epilepsy.