epilogomenon

English

Noun

epilogomenon (plural epilogomena)

1. A supplementary or concluding addendum.
   • 1841 December 30, “Musical Intelligence”, in The Musical World, volume 16, number 301, page 424:

     Like the poem of Epysychidion, by Shelley, the entrails of our epilogomena, will be caviare to the many-headed but to the select few will be as water to the parched earth, as manna to the hungry Israelite; they will unravel our sphinxities, and untwist our enigmatics, so that our dictum shall be as the opening of the seventh seal, or the finality of cherubian metastasis.

   • 1974, RBPH.: - Volume 52, Issues 3-4, page 629:

     Dostoevsky worked out his own epilogomenon to the Orthodox doctrine and incorporated his theories into The Brothers Karamazov .

   • 2013, Michael Pye, Exploring Religions in Motion, page 145:

     In these epilogomena some implications and connections to various themes in the theory of religion will be considered.

   • 2018, Bryan R. Simms, Alban Berg: A Research and Information Guide:

     Adorno's "epilogomena" addresses the work in absolute terms, consigning its programmatic trappings—emphasized by Berg in his Ope Letter (Berg, no. 47)—to the element of playfulness.