单词 | epicedian |
释义 | epicediann.adj. A funeral ode; a lament over a dead person; = epicedium n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > ode > funeral ode epicede1549 epicedium1587 epicedian1598 epicedion1612 1598 G. Chapman in C. Marlowe & G. Chapman Hero & Leander (new ed.) iv. sig. I3 The white black-eyde Swans Did sing as wofull Epicedians. 1662 J. Tatham Aqua Triumphalis 3 Swans are said to sing a little before they die..an Epecedean, or Funerall Song. 1836 H. Coleridge Let. 8 May (1936) 190 I did not and do not, admire any of his laureate poetry—(except the epicedian on the Princess, which is beautiful). B. adj. Of, relating to, or of the nature of an epicedian; = epicedial adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > formal or ceremonial mourning > [adjective] > dirge elegiacalc1487 elegiac1598 epicedial?c1615 epicedian1623 elegious1624 threnodian1634 threnetic1656 threnodial1819 threnetical1829 myriological1848 threnodical1881 threnodic1891 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [adjective] > mournful epicedian1623 threnodian1634 monodical1656 threnetic1656 threnodial1819 threnetical1829 threnodical1881 threnodic1891 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii. at Song A Song sung ere the corse bee buried, Epicedian-Songe [printed Epiodian]. 1881 Ld. Lytton in 19th Cent. Nov. 783 Epicedian strains. 1953 Slavonic & East European Rev. 31 401 Kochanowski was an experienced writer of epicedian verse. 1993 J. S. A. Adamson in K. Sharpe & P. Lake Culture & Politics in Early Stuart Eng. vii. 187 A spate of epicedian verses commemorating Essex, at his death in 1646. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1598 |
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