epicedian

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English

Adjective

epicedian (comparative more epicedian, superlative most epicedian)

  1. epicedial
    • 1906, O. Henry, The Skylight Room:
      I pray you let the drama halt while Chorus stalks to the footlights and drops an epicedian tear upon the fatness of Mr. Hoover.

Translations

Noun

epicedian (plural epicedians)

  1. An epicede.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for epicedian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)