epitaphed

comparative more epitaphed · superlative most epitaphed

1. Having been described as the subject of an epitaph.

   It is ultimately in the spirit behind these lines that the heritage of Imagism, that much-epitaphed movement, is to be found.

   1985, The Poetry of Ezra Pound, page 55

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   Since William J. Bryan is politically dead, buried, epitaphed and forgotten, there is something puzzling about the consternation his declaration of political policy has created among the plutocratic politicians and newspapers of both parties who have killed, buried, epitaphed and forgotten him.

   1904 January 30, The Public, number 304, page 673

   Death as a sense-making termination of human life is made possible only on the condition of such presence; without it, we are doomed to live a spectral existence of those who are not only "buried alive" but whose lives remain totally sealed in and by incomprehension, "epitaphed with hieroglyphics".

   2013, Andrzej Ciuk, Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, Exploring Space, page 44

2. Having an inscribed epitaph.

   What though no monument epitaphed Be built above each grave?

   1904, Abram Joseph Ryan, “Peace”, in The World's Best Poetry, page 453

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   Under an epitaphed marble slab in a nearby grassy cemetery a loved one rots .

   2008, William E. Woodruff, A Quirky Eye, page 137

   Average epitaph lengths and epitaphed headstone size according to three periods of time.

   2020, Sylvia E. Thornbush, Mary J. Thornbush, Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards, page 104

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of epitaph