v. [ad. Gr. ἐπιγραμματίζειν, f. ἐπίγραμμα (see EPIGRAM).]
1. intr. To compose epigrams; to speak or write in the epigrammatic style.
1811. Ann. Reg., 40. They may pun and epigrammatise.
1872. Liddon, Elem. Relig., vi. 210. Men do not … epigrammatize with the bitterness of Voltaire.
2. trans. To express in the form of an epigram, or with epigrammatic brevity and point.
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., I. 125. Which answers are Epigrammatiz’d by an admired Muse of our Nation.
1864. Lowell, Fireside Trav., 318. Voltaire … epigrammatized the same thought when he said, Le superflu, chose très-nécessaire.
3. To make the subject of an epigram.
1862. Thornbury, Turner, I. 9. Voltaire was epigrammatized by Young.
Hence Epigrammatizer, one who epigrammatizes; Epigrammatizing vbl. sb.
1870. Lowell, Study Wind. (1886), 363. He was … the condenser and epigrammatiser of Bolingbroke.
1872. Hindley, in J. Taylor’s (Water Poet) Wks., p. vii. His poetizing, epigrammatizing, and anagrammatizing on passing events.
