[f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. a. To describe in an epitaph; with compl. b. To write an epitaph upon.
1592. G. Harvey, Foure Lett., 19–20. Let mee rather be Epitaphed, The Inuentour of the English Hexameter.
1818. J. Brown, Psyche, 114. Epitaph’d an honest man.
1865. Athenæum, No. 1992. 929/1. Proudly entombed and epitaphed.
† 2. intr. To speak or write as in an epitaph; impers. in pass. Also, To epitaph it. Obs.
1627. Bp. Hall, Heaven on Earth, § 18. The commons … in their speeches epitaph vpon him as on that Pope, ‘He lived as a wolfe, and died as a dogge.’
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter ii. 15. 952. But many a man may say of his wealth, as it was epitaph’d on that Pope.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies (1840), I. 211. The poet thus epitapheth it.
