Epitaph

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·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.".