Associations to the word «Epigraph»

Wiktionary

EPIGRAPH, noun. An inscription, especially one on a building.
EPIGRAPH, noun. A literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text.
EPIGRAPH, noun. (mathematics) (of a function) the set of all points lying on or above the function's graph.

Dictionary definition

EPIGRAPH, noun. A quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing.
EPIGRAPH, noun. An engraved inscription.

Wise words

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Aeschylus