Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A funeral song or discourse; an epicedium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A funeral song or discourse; an elegy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
elegy ; anode to someonedeceased .
Etymologies
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From Latin epicēdīum, from Ancient Greek ἐπικήδειον (epikēdeion), neuter singular form of ἐπικήδειος (epikēdeios), from ἐπί (epi, "upon") + κῆδος (kēdos, "care").
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Examples
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_The Terrace at Berne_ has been already dealt with, but that mood for epicede, which was so frequent in Mr Arnold, finds in the _Carnac_ stanzas adequate, and in _A Southern Night_ consummate, expression.
Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889
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Elegy or litany, epicede or epithalamium, his work is always a song-writer's; nothing more, but nothing less, than the work of the greatest song-writer -- as surely as
The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 Robert Herrick 1632
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