EPIC

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Acronym of explicitly parallel instruction computing.

2. 2

   Acronym of epitaxial integrated circuit.

3. 3

   Acronym of Estates and Protected Individuals Code.

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   1. 4

      Acronym of East Plano Islamic Center.

   2. 5

      An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a…

      An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.

      • The Icelandic epic took all night to recite.
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      A series of events considered appropriate to an epic

      A series of events considered appropriate to an epic; any work of literature, film, etc. having heroic deeds and adventures as its subject matter.

      • The book was an epic in four volumes.
      • These epics nearly always had runaway trains, nincompoops floundering with the controls and a collapsed bridge just ahead!
   4. 7

      A large or extended user story.

      • Epics are shown in a separate list from user stories. This is because it is the user stories that are developed, not epics. Epics are decomposed into child user stories.
   5. 8

      Of or relating to an epic.

      • Beowulf is an epic poem.
      • The main theme of epic poetry is, of course, the hero, his life, his greatness of character, his deeds and his death.
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      Momentously heroic

      Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character.

      • The epic defense was rewarded with the highest military decorations
      • China's epic traffic jam "vanished" [title of article]
      • After all, Epic Fury captures the Trump presidency in its essence. Everything Mr. Trump does, at least as he sees it, is epic — the biggest, the most, the first, “like we’ve never seen before,” as he likes to say.
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      Extending beyond the usual or ordinary.

      • The after-prom party was truly epic.
      • You made an epic mistake.
      • Then tell him his daughter's an epic shag.
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      That is an epimorphism.

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      Alternative letter-case form of epic (“relating to epic poems”).

      • Egil’s Saga, I think, one cannot at present obtain at all, and the Saga of the Laxdale men I only possess in Latin. These and the rest are truly Epic narratives, the Odysseys of a ruder race than the Achæans.
      • We shall speak, therefore, of the Epic tradition as an already established fact, and we shall discuss it only from the point of view of the fifth and fourth centuries in Athens.
   10. 13

       Pertaining to a dialect characteristic of epic poems, especially Epic Greek.

       • Every δῆμος [dêmos] had one or more towns (πόλεις [poleis]), and accordingly for the complete description of the land, usual in the Epic phraseology, both expressions are commonly united […]
       • The first syllable is lengthened, as the antistrophic line […] shows, an Epic scansion in accordance with the Epic phrase […]
       • It commonly signifies the indigenous religion(s) of South Asia, now increasingly called by the Epic term Sanātana Dharma (eternal religion).
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       Alternative letter-case form of epic (“extended narrative poem”)

       Alternative letter-case form of epic (“extended narrative poem”); especially a poem within a particular tradition of epics.

       • He calls for a special kind of instrument, bearing a name which smacks of the Norse Epics—a “Nibling.”
       • Compare Milton’s Epics with the other great Epics of the world.
       • The “Idylls of the King,” more of a complete Epic than any of the great Epics, showed how high is that aim which every commonwealth of men is bound to propose to itself; […]

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