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单词 epilogue
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epiloguen.

/ˈɛpɪlɒɡ/
Forms: Also 1500s epiloge.
Etymology: < French epilogue, < Latin epilogus, < Greek ἐπίλογος the peroration of a speech, < ἐπί in addition + λόγος speech.
1.
a. Rhetoric. The concluding part or peroration of a speech. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > conclusion
conclusionc1405
epilogation1474
epilogo1588
resultance1610
resultancya1628
epilogue1644
epilogism1671
the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech > concluding speech or part of speech
parclosec1390
conclusionc1405
period1532
peroration1550
close1578
corollary1603
epilogue1644
closing argument1819
snapper1857
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 48 Commended the use and signification of this gesture; but in Epilogue onely.
b. A summary. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > summarizing > summary
sum1340
conclusionc1405
capitlea1425
docketa1483
chapiter1483
summary1509
summar1565
collection1579
continent1590
epilogue1646
summing up1795
sum-up1848
sum totalization1855
run-through1946
1646 F. Hawkins tr. Youths Behaviour (ed. 4) 34 If any one come on a sudden whilst thou talkest..it is seemely to make a little Epilogue, and briefe collection of what thou deliveredst.
2.
a. The concluding part of a literary work; an appendix.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > postface or conclusion
envoyc1398
extraduction1533
epilogue1564
heel1608
explicit1660
post-face1742
afterword1890
society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [noun] > epilogue, envoy, or conclusion
parclosec1390
envoyc1398
conclusionc1405
l'envoy1430
subscriptionc1450
extraduction1533
epilogue1564
surclose1589
corollary1603
post-face1742
retroduction1786
explicit1849
snapper1857
1564 Briefe Exam. ****** iiij Now at length are you come to the Epiloge (as it were) or full conclusion of your worke.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxiii. 202 A Preface in the beginning, and an Epilogue in the end.
1704 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 24 1610 To this Book he subjoyns an Epilogue, containing some general Corollaries.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 182 The epilogue or conclusion of the Dialogue has been criticised.
b. In extended use.
ΚΠ
1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. 230 For an epilogue of his Feaver, contracts a Chronick disease.
1882–3 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. 560 The fifth œcumenical council..is generally considered as a mere epilogue to the Council of Chalcedon.
3.
a. A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators by one of the actors after the conclusion of the play.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > epilogue
epilogue1600
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 346 No Epilogue, I pray you. For your Play needs no excuse. View more context for this quotation
1647 Epil. to Fletcher & Massinger's Custome of Countrey in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. sig. Dd/2 Why there should be an Epilogue to a Play. I know no cause.
1719 E. Young Busiris Epil. sig. F4 The Race of Criticks, dull judicious Rogues, To Mournful Plays deny Brisk Epilogues.
1782 J. Warton Ess. on Pope (new ed.) II. viii. 113 His epilogue to the Tartuffe.
1891 N.E.D. at Epilogue Mod. The Epilogue to the Westminster Play appears in the Times of to-day.
b. Figurative and in extended use.
ΚΠ
a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) x. 50 Folly brings in the Prologue with his tongue, Whose Epilogue is Rage and open wrong.
c1788 E. Burke Impeachm. W. Hastings in 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.

Compounds

attributive.
ΚΠ
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. viii. 220 The Hostesse..ran after the Epilogue-speaker.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

epiloguev.

/ˈɛpɪlɒɡ/
Etymology: < epilogue n.
transitive. To put an epilogue to.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > compose part of poem [verb (transitive)] > compose ending to
epilogue1596
epilogize1623
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > act [verb (transitive)] > speak epilogue of
epilogue1596
epilogate1652
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) x. lx. 263 To epilogue our Tragedie, now Adoniah acts.
1758 Monthly Rev. 19 App. 621 The whole being epilogued with a most delectable poem.
1833 C. Lamb Let. 29 Nov. (1935) III. 391 Knowles's play..epilogued by me.
1889 Sat. Rev. 21 Dec. 705/1 Mr. Dobson..prologues and epilogues the selection with charming verses of his own.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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