[1855–60; epigraph + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1855–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: barrage, keyword, kickoff, output, pipeline-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
Examples of 'epigraphic' in a sentence
epigraphic
Even the epigraphic adornments are founts of instruction and guidance.
The Times Literary Supplement (2013)
They made almost no epigraphic inscriptions and few sculptures in stone.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
They show absolute command of all the sources and evidence, epigraphic, archaeological and literary.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The sixteenth century was a high point for epigraphic forgery because of the confluence of two historical trends.