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n. An inscription, as on a statue or building.

n. A motto or quotation, as at the beginning of a literary composition, setting forth a theme.

n. an inscription, especially one on a building etc

n. a literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book etc

n. (of a function) the set of all points lying on or above its graph

n. Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.

n. A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.

n. An inscription cut or impressed on stone, metal, or other permanent material, as distinguished from a writing in manuscript, etc.; specifically, in archaeology, a terse inscription on a building, tomb, monument, or statue, denoting its use or appropriation, and sometimes incorporated in its scheme of ornamentation.

n. A superscription or title at the beginning of a book, a treatise, or a part of a book.

n. 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.

To inscribe an epigraph on.

n. a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing

n. an engraved inscription

"My epigraph is similarly striking: When language fails us, when we fail each other there is no exorcism."

citation    quote    quotation    lettering    inscription   

epigraphist    epigraphy    epigrapher   

motto    inscription   

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