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epilogize, v.|ɪˈpɪlədʒaɪz|
[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 eˈpilogizing ppl. a.
1623Cockeram, Epilogize, to make a conclusion, or end. c1665R. Carpenter Pragm. Jesuit 65/2 Summe up the lies that will Epilogize to the Epilogue of this Comedy. 1834–43Southey Doctor (1849) xl. i. 96 [Prayers] with which the so called Evangelical Clergymen..think proper sometimes to prologise and epilogize their grievous discourses. 1881Hales in Athenæum 24 Dec. 851/2 He [Gower] epilogizes in these Latin lines.
transf.1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 120 When thumb or hammer of a clock Gives the epilogizing stroak. |