All 3 Uses of
epitaph
in
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
- , and an epitaph in the true stile.†
Book 2 *epitaph = a short text in memory of a dead person
- The captain was now interred, and might, perhaps, have already made a large progress towards oblivion, had not the friendship of Mr Allworthy taken care to preserve his memory, by the following epitaph, which was written by a man of as great genius as integrity, and one who perfectly well knew the captain.†
Book 2
- Such rarae aves should be remitted to the epitaph writer, or to some poet who may condescend to hitch him in a distich, or to slide him into a rhime with an air of carelessness and neglect, without giving any offence to the reader.†
Book 8
Definition:
a short text in memory of a dead person -- especially text written on a tombstone