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The act of beheading; beheading.

To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.

The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.

in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription. Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb. Shak.

A writer of epitaphs. Nash.

Relating to, or of the nature of, an epitaph. The noble Pericles in his epitaphian speech. Milton. Epitaphial Latin verses are not to be taken too literally. Lowell.

Pertaining to an epitaph; epitaphian. -- n.

An epitapher.

That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis.

The exoccipital bone, which often forms a part of the occipital in the adult, but is usually distinct in the young.

uests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality. Shak.

The quality of being hospitable; hospitality. Barrow.

In a hospitable manner.

Hospitality. [Obs.] Spenser.

part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for. Hospital ship, a vessel fitted up for a floating hospital. -- Hospital Sunday, a Sunday set apart for simultaneous contribution in churches to hospitals; as, the London Hospital Sunday.

One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers.

A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.

The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality. Given to hospitality. Rom. xii. 13. And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality. Shak.

To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.

To receive hospitality; to be a guest. [Obs.] Grew.