epigram mist, epigraph (epigraf)

[F. épigraphe = Sp. epigrafe = Pg. epigraphe = It. epigrafe, Dr. Meret, a learned man and Library Keeper, shew'd me. the statue and epigraph under it of that renowned phys it i an Dr. Harvey, discoverer of the circulation of the blood. Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 3, 1662. 2. A superscription or title at the beginning of a book, a treatise, or a part of a book.-3. In lit. , a citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the commencement of a work or of one of its separate divisions; a motto. Leave here the pages with long musing curled, And write me new my future's epigraph. Mrs. Browning. epigraph (ep'i-graf), v. t. [ Also a paper epigraphed : "Lo que dijo J. B. Piata a Don Juan de Indiaquez, 24 June, 1586." Motley, United Netherlands, I. 526. epigrapher (e-pig'ra-fèr), n . Same as epigra cian. ] An drunken principles. Jer. Taylor, Holy Dying, i. 2. epigrammatarian (ep-i-gram-a-tā'ri-an), n. ( = Sp. epigramático = Pg. It. = It is a new doctrine that the most meritorious fieldwork will make a man a linguist, an epigrapher , and an historian. Contemporary Rev., LI. 562.