An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn. A prince [Henry III.] to whom the epithet "worthless" seems best applicable. Hallam.
Term; expression; phrase. "Stiffed with epithets of war." Shak.
To describe by an epithet. [R.] Never was a town better epitheted. Sir H. Wotton.
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