E*pon"y*mist (?), n. One from whom a race, tribe, city, or the like, took its name; an eponym.
E*pon"y*mous (?), a. [Gr. &?;; 'epi` upon, to + &?; for &?; name.] Relating to an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like.
What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are to be canceled as fictions?
Grote.
E*pon"y*my (?), n. [Gr. &?; a surname given after some person or thing.] The derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that of a fabulous hero, progenitor, etc.
||Ep`o*öph"o*ron (?), n. [NL., from Gr. 'epi` upon + &?; egg + fe`rein to bear.] (Anat.) See Parovarium.
{ Ep"o*pee` (?), ||Ep`o*p"ia (?), } n. [F. épopée, Gr. &?;; 'e`pos song + &?; to make. See Epos.] An epic poem; epic poetry.
Ep"opt (?), n. [Gr. &?; one initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries.] One instructed in the mysteries of a secret system. Carlyle.
||Ep"os (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;.] An epic.
Ep`o*ta"tion (?), n. [L. epotare, epotatum, to drink; e out + potare to drink.] A drinking up; a quaffing. [Obs.] Feltham.
||É`prou`vette" (?), n. [F.] (Gun.) An apparatus for testing or proving the strength of gunpowder.
Ep"som*ite (?), n. Native sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salt.
{ Ep"som salts` or salt` (?) }. (Med.) Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia.
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Ep"u*la*ry (?), a. [L. epularis, fr. epulum a feast: cf. F. épulaire.] Of or pertaining to a feast or banquet. [Obs.] Smart.
Ep`u*la"tion (?), n. [L. epulatio.] A feasting or feast; banquet. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
||E*pu"lis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a gumboil; Gr. 'epi` upon + &?; gums.] (Med.) A hard tumor developed from the gums.