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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Depicting. ] 1. To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray. [ 1913 Webster ]

His arms are fairly depicted in his chamber. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To represent in words; to describe vividly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cæsar's gout was then depicted in energetic language. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. represented graphically by sketch or design or lines.
Syn. -- pictured, portrayed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. depictio. ] A painting or depicting; a representation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depictured p. pr. & vb. n. Depicturing. ] To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. [ 1913 Webster ]

Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. epicus, Gr. &unr_;, from &unr_; a word, speech, tale, song; akin to L. vox voice: cf. F. épique. See Voice. ] Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style. [ 1913 Webster ]

The epic poem treats of one great, complex action, in a grand style and with fullness of detail. T. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An epic or heroic poem. See Epic, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Epic. -- Ep"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Poems which have an epical character. Brande & C. [1913 Webster]

His [Wordsworth's] longer poems (miscalled epical). Lowell. [1913 Webster]

a. (Anat.) Of or relating to the epicardium. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'epi` upon + kardi`a heart. ] (Anat.) That part of the pericardium which forms the outer surface of the heart; the cardiac pericardium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. epi- + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, a shrimp. ] (Zoöl.) An isopod crustacean, parasitic on shrimps. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Pref. epi- + Gr. &unr_; fruit. ] (Bot.) The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. epicedion, Gr. &unr_; dirge, elegy, fr. &unr_; funereal; &unr_; + &unr_; care, sorrow: cf. F. épicède. ] A funeral song or discourse; an elegy. [ R. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Elegiac; funereal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Epicedial. -- n. An epicede. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] An epicede. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. [ L. epicoenus, Gr. &unr_;; fr. 'epi` + &unr_; common; cf. F. épicène. ] 1. Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other. [ 1913 Webster ]

The literary prigs epicene. Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

He represented an epicene species, neither churchman nor layman. J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. epi- + centrum. ] (Anat.) Arising from the centrum of a vertebra. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; tempering the humors; 'epi` + &unr_; to mix: cf. F. épicérastique. ] (Med.) Lenient; assuaging. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Epichiremata [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, from &unr_; to attempt to prove. ] (Rhet. & Logic) A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner. [ Written also epicheirema. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. epi- + chordal. ] (Anat.) Upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column, which develops around it. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; over + &unr_; country. ] In or of the country. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Epichorial superstitions from every district of Europe. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'epi` upon + &unr_; a little key. ] (Anat.) A projection, formed by a separate ossification, at the scapular end of the clavicle of many birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. epi- + Gr. &unr_; a couch. ] (Bot.) Situated on the receptacle or disk of a flower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. epi- + Gr. koi^lon a hollow. ] (Anat.) A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Epicene. [ R. ] Hadley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. epi- + Gr. &unr_; colon. ] (Anat.) Situated upon or over the colon; -- applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the colon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Anat.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an epicondyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. epi- + condyle. ] (Anat.) A projection on the inner side of the distal end of the humerus; the internal condyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. epi- + coracoid. ] (Anat.) A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the epicranium; as, epicranial muscles. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Epi-, and Cranium. ] 1. (Anat.) The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zoöl.) The dorsal wall of the head of insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; Epictetus. ] Pertaining to Epictetus, the Roman Stoic philosopher, whose conception of life was to be passionless under whatever circumstances. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Epicurus, Gr. &unr_;, a famous Greek philosopher, who has been regarded, but erroneously, as teaching a doctrine of refined voluptuousness. ] 1. A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table.

Syn. -- Voluptuary; sensualist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Epicureus, Gr. &unr_;: cf. épicurien. ] 1. Pertaining to Epicurus, or following his philosophy. “The sect Epicurean.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Given to luxury; adapted to luxurious tastes; luxurious; pertaining to good eating. [ 1913 Webster ]

Courses of the most refined and epicurean dishes. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Epicurean philosophy. See Atomic philosophy, under Atomic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A follower or Epicurus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One given to epicurean indulgence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Luxuriously. Nash. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Epicurean. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. épicurisme. ] 1. The doctrines of Epicurus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Epicurean habits of living; luxury. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To feed or indulge like an epicure. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. epicyclus, Gr. &unr_;; 'epi` upon + &unr_; circle. See Cycle. ] 1. (Ptolemaic Astron.) A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with the deferent, and yet, by its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center. [ 1913 Webster ]

The schoolmen were like astronomers which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mech.) A circle which rolls on the circumference of another circle, either externally or internally. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, resembling, or having the motion of, an epicycle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Epicyclic train (Mach.), a train of mechanism in which epicyclic motion is involved; esp., a train of spur wheels, bevel wheels, or belt pulleys, in which an arm, carrying one or more of the wheels, sweeps around a center lying in an axis common to the other wheels. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Epicycle + -oid: cf. F. épicycloïde. ] (Geom.) A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Any point rigidly connected with the rolling circle, but not in its circumference, traces a curve called an epitrochoid. The curve traced by a point in the circumference of the rolling circle when it rolls on the concave side of a fixed circle is called a hypocycloid; the curve traced by a point rigidly connected with the rolling circle in this case, but not its circumference, is called a hypotrochoid. All the curves mentioned above belong to the class class called roulettes or trochoids. See Trochoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties. [ 1913 Webster ]

Epicycloidal wheel, a device for producing straight-line motion from circular motion, on the principle that a pin fastened in the periphery of a gear wheel will describe a straight line when the wheel rolls around inside a fixed internal gear of twice its diameter. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to orthoepy, or correct pronunciation. -- Or`tho*ep"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]