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What does epithetic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word epithetic? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of or relating to epithets.
  2. (linguistics) Of or relating to epithesis.
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A bit further on when we gain Greenwicher Strasse, Liverpooler Strasse and Cambridger Strasse, we seem momentarily to be back in an epithetic Little England.
The specific epithetic commemorates the original discoverer of this species, Liang-Ru Chang.
They tend to be epithetic, denigrating, even derisory in nature.
In their view, the host used the term as an epithetic expression of frustration but not in an intentionally irreverent, blasphemous or irreligious way.
He thought the rebuke was for racism, but was told he'd used far too many adjectives in one sentence, which I thought was rather epithetic.

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