Definition of Epithetical

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epithetical

epithelizes
epithelizing
epitheloid
epithem
epitheme
epithemes
epithems
epithermal
epithermal chemistry
epitheses
epithesis
epithet
epitheted
epithetic
epithetical (current term)
epithets
epithiazide
epithite
epithites
epithumetic
epitomai
epitomator
epitomators
epitome
epitomes
epitomic
epitomical
epitomise

Literary usage of Epithetical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts by Frederick Victor Dickins (1906)
"brought in at the end of a long epithetical exordium or introduction. ... Most Chinese epithetical words, like the Japanese, refer to history, mythology, ..."

2. Horus in the Pyramid Texts by Thomas George Allen (1916)
"Terms whose formation or use suggests merely epithetical function, whether or not the deity to whom they apply be determi- nable. Two special types of this ..."

3. Miscellanea Scotica.: A Collection of Tracts Relating to the History (1820)
"Nor seems the other supposition concerning epithetical surnames to be much ... These epithetical designations must be owned to have been in use in some ..."

4. Reason, Thought, and Language; Or, The Many and the One: A Revised System of by Douglas Macleane (1906)
"Since universal propositions are contradicted by particular ones, and vice versa, epithetical positives are opposed to determining negatives, ..."

5. Humanistic Studies by University of Kansas (1916)
"epithetical, no doubt, but more poetic are the compounds ... What may be called the "formal poetic phrase" has some kinship with the epithetical phrase, ..."

6. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... by six ten-line stanzas of a strange epithetical compound of garbled sentences, with a studied phraseology, in part imitating the Scotish language. ..."

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