epigraph
IPA: ɛpʌgrˈæf
noun
- An inscription, especially on a building.
- A literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text.
- (mathematics, of a function) The set of all points lying on or above the function's graph.
verb
- (transitive) To provide (a literary work) with an epigraph.
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Examples of "epigraph" in Sentences
- I moreover restored the epigraph.
- The epigraph quotes from Don Quixote.
- This note won't appear at the epigraph of the image.
- As for the epigraph, it looks 'naked' the second time.
- I did the epigraph section and that seems to have stuck.
- In the introduction there is that not about the books epigraph.
- Those epigraphs foreshadow the narrative of the testimonial of Menchu.
- He left an epigraph that recorded the process of building that palace.
- Each of the stories begins with an epigraph from a theoretical thinker.
- It was the epigraph for the Spartan dead and was written by Simonides, a poet.
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