a. [f. EPITHALAM-IUM + -IC.] Of or pertaining to an epithalamium.

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1756.  Toldervy, Hist. Two Orphans, IV. 200. The youths and maids … performed this epithalamic ode.

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1796.  Burney, Mem. Metastasio, II. 390. Both the Epithalamic Psalm and the Cantata of Eunosto.

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1846.  Grote, Greece (1862), I. i. 50. The ‘Sacred Wedding’ … was familiar to epithalamic poets.

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1884.  Stockton, Lady or the Tiger? 12. Dancing maidens … treading an epithalamic measure.

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