Obs. Also 6 apathaton, epithetone, 7 epithiton. [late L. epitheton, Gr. ἐπίθετον: see EPITHET sb.]
1. What is ascribed to a person; an attribute.
1547. Hooper, Answ. Bp. Winchester’s Bk., Wks. (Parker Soc.), 124. This is properly the Epitheton of God to be of nothing but of himself.
2. = EPITHET 1 and 2.
1563–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1684), III. 621/2. Alter the Epithethons, and I will subscribe.
1570–87. Holinshed, Scot. Chron. (1806), II. 361. The rebellious faction (for by that name and epitheton doth Buchanan always term those that took the queens part).
1609. Bible (Douay), Ps. cxliv. comm., King, is the proper epitheton of Christ, the Sonne of God.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., V. ii. § 4. The worthy Epitheton of King Edgar.
c. 1720. W. Gibson, Farrier’s Dispens. (1729), 197/1. His cordial Powder, which he says has not that Epitheton for nought.
