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单词 epigram
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epigramn.

/ˈɛpɪɡram/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s epigramme, (1500s epigrame, 1600s epigramm).
Etymology: < French épigramme, < Latin epigramma, Greek ἐπίγραμμα, < ἐπιγράϕειν, < ἐπί upon + γράϕειν to write.
1. An inscription, usually in verse: = epigraph n. 1.
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.
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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.
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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.

Etymology: < epigram n.
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).
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