Epithetise

If I thought our very worthy chairman would smile on having a tragedy put into his hands by one who paid much attention to so dry, heavy — or how shall we epithetise it? — a subject or science as statistics or political economy, surely I cannot expect less from our very worthy croupier, on having a comedy, forsooth, put into his hands by the same student of the dry or heavy, but that he should laugh fairly and broadly out.

And if Peter can so epithetise the psalmist David with propriety, why may not Matthew apply the same epithet to the psalmist Asaph ?

France might well in after years look back with melancholy pride upon that brilliant period and epithetise the central figure as “la Grande Monarque'; for much as it is now the fashion to sneer at that agnomen, Louis was in those days a great king.