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▪ I. epilogue, n.|ˈɛpɪlɒg|
Also 6 epiloge.
[a. F. epilogue, ad. L. epilogus, a. Gr. ἐπίλογος the peroration of a speech, f. ἐπί in addition + λόγος speech.]
†1. Rhet. The concluding part or peroration of a speech. Obs.
1644Bulwer Chiron. 48 Commended the use and signification of this gesture; but in Epilogue onely.
†b. A summary. Obs.
1646F. Hawkins Youth's Behav. (1663) 24 If any one come on a suddain whil'st thou talk'st..it is seemly to make a little Epilogue, and brief collection of what thou deliverest.
2. The concluding part of a literary work; an appendix.
1564Brief Exam. ****** iiij, Now at length are you come to the Epiloge (as it were) or full conclusion of your worke. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xxxiii. 202 A Preface in the beginning, and an Epilogue in the end. 1704in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1610 To this Book he subjoyns an Epilogue, containing some general Corollaries. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 191 The epilogue or conclusion of the Dialogue has been criticised.
transf.1657G. Starkey Helmont's Vind. 230 For an epilogue of his Feaver, contracts a Chronick disease. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. 560 The fifth œcumenical council..is generally considered as a mere epilogue to the Council of Chalcedon.
3. A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators by one of the actors after the conclusion of the play.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. v. i. 362 No Epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no excuse. 1616Beaum. & Fl. Cust. Country Epil., Why there should be an epilogue to a play, I know no cause. 1719Young Busiris Epil., The race of critics, dull, judicious rogues, To mournful plays deny brisk Epilogues. 1756J. Warton Ess. Pope (1782) II. viii. 50 His epilogue to the Tartuffe. Mod. The Epilogue to the Westminster Play appears in the Times of to-day.
transf. and fig.1645Quarles Sol. Recant. x. xiii, Folly brings in the Prologue with his tongue, Whose Epilogue is Rage and open wrong. c1788Burke W. Hastings Wks. XIV. 204 You have heard as much of the drama as I could go through..Mr. Larkins's letter will be the epilogue to it.
4. attrib.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. viii. 220 The Hostesse..ran after the Epilogue-speaker.
▪ II. epilogue, v.|ˈɛpɪlɒg|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To put an epilogue to.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. x. lix. 261 To epilogue our Tragedie, now Adoniah acts. 1758Monthly Rev. 621 The whole being epilogued with a most delectable poem. a1834Lamb Final Mem. viii. 277 Knowles' play..epilogued by me. 1889Sat. Rev. 21 Dec. 705/1 Mr. Dobson..prologues and epilogues the selection with charming verses of his own. |