·vt To commemorate by an epitaph.
II. Epitaph ·vi To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
III. Epitaph ·noun An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription.
IV. Epitaph ·noun A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis.".