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The Savage Mind, by the way, is an extraorinary work, despite its epithetical title.

Instead it will enable him to make hay while the epithetical sun is shining.

From Salon

And many of the early epithetical uses refer either to women or to men who behave as women.

From Slate

Though Shakespeare bears away the prize among these epithetical allotments, I suspect that his immortality—here positively assigned to him—was owing to the honour of the recent edition by Rowe.

I must be content merely to call by name upon a few of the principal of these “fair varieties,” and allow their prototypes in the reader’s imagination to answer for themselves; for the Poets, those purloiners of all public property that is worth possessing, have long precluded us plain prosers from being epithetical in regard to Roses, without incurring the imputation of borrowing that from them, which they first borrowed from their betters, the Roses themselves.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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