[f. prec. sb.] trans. † a. To add (a word) as an epithet (obs.). b. To apply an epithet to. c. To term, entitle.
1628. Walton, in Reliq. Wotton (1672), 566. Never was a town better Epithited.
1637. H. Sydenham, Serm., II. 136. Ecclesiasticall honour (Episcopall he epithetes).
1650. Fuller, Pisgah, IV. Ep. Ded. 434. Francis your Avus, whose death I would epithete Untimely. Ibid. (1659), Appeal, li. 7. Mr. Fox hath now the casual favour of my Pen to be epithited Reverent.
1698. Christ Exalted, § 109. 88. Here are Whisperings, Surmises, Slanders and Reproaches, and these epethited with being private, evil, insinuated and clandestine.
1882. G. Macdonald, in Sunday Mag., XI. 80/2. Woeful Miss Witherspin, as Mark had epitheted her.
