a. arch. [f. EPICEDI-UM + -AL.] Of or pertaining to an epicedium; elegiac.
1654. Vilvain, Epit. Ess., VI. l. 141 2 Epicedial Distichs.
1824. Carlyle, Richter, Misc. (1869), 4. Some of them far exceed anything we English can exhibit in the epicedial style. Ibid. (1828), in For. Rev., II. 461. In epicedial language, it may be said … that his country mourned for him.
