arch. Also 7 epiced. Anglicized form of EPICEDIUM.
1549. Bale, Ded. of Leland’s Itin. (T.). His worthy works … with hys epigrams and epicedes.
1613–6. W. Browne, Brit. Past., I. v. (1772), 141. To heare the swan sing her oune epiced.
1654. Vilvain, Epit. Ess., VI. xcix. 156. Ausonius made many Epiceds on most of the worthy Warriers at Troy.
1848. Blackw. Mag., LXIV. 228. He had hastily flattered Richard Cromwell’s brief authority by an epicede on Oliver.
