单词 | epigram |
释义 | epigramn.ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun] onwritingOE writinga1382 inwritingc1384 writa1400 scripturec1400 scriptiona1425 style?a1527 inscriptiona1552 epigram1552 inscriptor1603 inscript1611 epigraph1624 scribings1870 wording1908 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Epigrame or superscription. 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Diij Led by pompe wyth Sergeaunts sad The Epigrammes to graue. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars Introd. 4 The Epigramme of the former is extant among the Antiquities of Rome citie. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 528 The Epigram, that was written upon the public Sepulchre at Athens. 1782 V. Knox Ess. I. 264 Inscriptions, for such are epigrams according to the original meaning. a1876 M. Collins in Pen Sketches I. 246 What the Greeks meant by an epigram was simply an inscription, and its primary use was funereal. 2. a. A short poem ending in a witty or ingenious turn of thought, to which the rest of the composition is intended to lead up. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > short verse or poem > [noun] > epigram epigrama1552 priamel1889 a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) VI. 46 If it be so I must amend my Epigramme of it. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 229 Some learned Writers..haue compared a Scorpion to an Epigram..because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayle, so the force and vertue of an Epigram is in the conclusion. 1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ix. §3. 617 Even Rochester in his merciless epigram was forced to own that Charles ‘never said a foolish thing’. b. loosely used for a laudatory poem. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > formal expression of praise > [noun] > laudatory poem epigram1872 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [noun] > types of laudatory poem qasida1772 drápa1843 praise1861 epigram1872 praise song1886 praise name1904 praise poem1925 1872 H. T. Ellacombe Bells of Church ix. 493 This epigrame [of date 1558], as it is called, consists of sixty-four lines in English verse in praise of the said Robert Palmer and his sons, and other friends, skilled in ringing changes. 3. a. A pointed or antithetical saying. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > epigram nitigram1614 epigrama1797 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [noun] > epigrammatic style epigrama1797 epigrammatism1813 a1797 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory France in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 76 A short, affected, pedantic, insolent, theatric laconium; a sort of epigram of contempt. 1884 R. W. Church Bacon iii. 60 He liked..to generalise in shrewd and sometimes cynical epigrams. b. Epigrammatic expression. ΚΠ 18.. Ld. Brougham Dk. Bedford in Wks. (1872) I. 393 The morbid taste for slander steeped in epigram. 1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith i. 35 Epigram is one thing, definition is another. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † epigramv. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To write an epigram. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > be witty with words [verb (intransitive)] > make epigrams epigram1628 epigrammatize1811 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxxii. sig. V7 For this, does Martiall Epigram vpon it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.a1552v.1628 |
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