v. [ad. Gr. ἐπιλογίζεσθαι, f. ἐπίλογος EPILOGUE.] intr. a. To serve as an epilogue. b. To write or speak an epilogue. c. trans. To put an epilogue to. Hence Epilogizing ppl. a.
1623. Cockeram, Epilogize, to make a conclusion, or end.
c. 1665. R. Carpenter, Pragm. Jesuit, 65/2. Summe up the lies that will Epilogize to the Epilogue of this Comedy.
1834–43. Southey, Doctor (1849), xl. i. 96. [Prayers] with which the so called Evangelical Clergymen … think proper sometimes to prologize and epilogize their grievous discourses.
1881. Hales, in Athenæum, 24 Dec., 851/2. He [Gower] epilogizes in these Latin lines.
transf. 1681. Colvil, Whigs Supplic. (1751), 120. When thumb or hammer of a clock Gives the epilogizing stroak.
