epithetical

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The Savage Mind, by the way, is an extraorinary work, despite its epithetical title.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2018

He simply presents his case and lets readers draw the obvious and epithetical conclusion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though Shakespeare bears away the prize among these epithetical allotments, I suspect that his immortality—here positively assigned to him—was owing to the honour of the recent edition by Rowe.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

It there designates a soft-brained boy; one who is lacking in intellect, or, as a correspondent observes, "an epithetical fool."

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer