epithetizes

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
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