"epithetise" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "epithetises",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "epithetising",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "epithetised",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "epithetised",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "word": "epithetize"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1839, Simon Gray, The Spaniard; or, Relvindez and Elzora, a tragedy:",
          "text": "If I thought our very worthy chairman would smile on having a tragedy put into his hands by one who paid much attention to so dry, heavy — or how shall we epithetise it? — a subject or science as statistics or political economy, surely I cannot expect less from our very worthy croupier, on having a comedy, forsooth, put into his hands by the same student of the dry or heavy, but that he should laugh fairly and broadly out.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1872, David MacCalman Turpie, The New Testament View of the Old: A Contribution to Biblical Introduction, page 149:",
          "text": "And if Peter can so epithetise the psalmist David with propriety, why may not Matthew apply the same epithet to the psalmist Asaph ?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1874, Henry Barton Baker, French Society from the Fronde to the Great Revolution, page 184:",
          "text": "France might well in after years look back with melancholy pride upon that brilliant period and epithetise the central figure as “la Grande Monarque'; for much as it is now the fashion to sneer at that agnomen, Louis was in those days a great king.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of epithetize"
      ],
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          "epithetize",
          "epithetize#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "epithetise"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "epithetises",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "epithetising",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "epithetised",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "epithetised",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "word": "epithetize"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1839, Simon Gray, The Spaniard; or, Relvindez and Elzora, a tragedy:",
          "text": "If I thought our very worthy chairman would smile on having a tragedy put into his hands by one who paid much attention to so dry, heavy — or how shall we epithetise it? — a subject or science as statistics or political economy, surely I cannot expect less from our very worthy croupier, on having a comedy, forsooth, put into his hands by the same student of the dry or heavy, but that he should laugh fairly and broadly out.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1872, David MacCalman Turpie, The New Testament View of the Old: A Contribution to Biblical Introduction, page 149:",
          "text": "And if Peter can so epithetise the psalmist David with propriety, why may not Matthew apply the same epithet to the psalmist Asaph ?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1874, Henry Barton Baker, French Society from the Fronde to the Great Revolution, page 184:",
          "text": "France might well in after years look back with melancholy pride upon that brilliant period and epithetise the central figure as “la Grande Monarque'; for much as it is now the fashion to sneer at that agnomen, Louis was in those days a great king.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of epithetize"
      ],
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          "epithetize#English"
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  "word": "epithetise"
}