a. and sb. [f. EPIGRAPH + -IC.]

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  A.  adj. Of or pertaining to inscriptions, or to epigraphy.

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1858.  M. Pattison, Ess. (1889), II. 341. To bring up a loose analogy of this sort against epigraphic evidence is simply childish.

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1881.  R. Lanciani, in Athenæum, 9 April, 498/3. Being mostly formed of a single letter, they escape an epigraphic reconstruction.

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1883.  I. Taylor, Alphabet, I. 266. Unsuitable for an epigraphic alphabet.

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  B.  sb. In pl. The science of inscriptions.

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In mod. Dicts.

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  Hence Epigraphical a. = EPIGRAPHIC a. Epigraphically adv., in an epigraphic manner; from the point of view of epigraphic science.

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1881.  A. H. Sayce, in Athenæum, 13 Aug., 208/3. Skill in reading Talmudic literature does not necessarily imply epigraphical skill as well.

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1884.  Athenæum, 13 Sept., 344/1. The author summed up the existing records, architectural, sculptured, annalistic, literary, and epigraphical.

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1884.  Christian Treas., Feb., 118/1. This epigraphical silence of the Holy Land.

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1883.  I. Taylor, Alphabet, I. 133. Epigraphically of the same age.

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