epithetize

Verb

epithetize (third-person singular simple present epithetizes, present participle epithetizing, simple past and past participle epithetized)

1. To name using an epithet.
   • You mean, Randy, those primitive religions in which the celebrants of the feast sacrifice a 'queen' bi-annually to propitiate unnatural forces like the sort of cannibalism which 'The Beatht,' as you so cunningly epithetize yon Moor, has been rumored to practice upon certain select and fortunate...1973, Bartholomew Gill, Mark McGarrity, Lucky shuffles, page 232
   • […] led the Colonial Reformers such as Charles Buller to epithetize him as Mr . Oversecretary or Mr . Mothercountry .1974, Bengal, Past & Present
2. To disparage by means of an epithet.
   • The Professor, after having drubbed us in the style of which we have presented such numerous specimens to our readers, and which we need not now epithetize, concludes by telling that we are both tired of the subject; but that he is unwilling to close his argument, without giving us credit for all...1825, Samuel Lee, Remarks on Professor Lee's Vindication of his edition of Jone's Persian Grammar, page 90
   • To be sure, the fundamental tenets of honesty remain immutable; but business practices change—voluntarily or by legal compulsion. Therefore, to stigmatize or epithetize the operation in the setting of today would not only be unfair to the defendants, but it would unjustly discolor a view of the...1943, Your Investments - Volume 4