Epistle
(noun) a book of the New Testament written in the form of a letter from an Apostle
epistle
(noun) a specially long, formal letter
Source: WordNet® 3.1
epistle (plural epistles)
A letter, or a literary composition in the form of a letter.
(Christianity) One of the letters included as a book of the New Testament.
epistle (third-person singular simple present epistles, present participle epistling, simple past and past participle epistled)
(obsolete, ambitransitive) To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.
• pelites, septile
Epistle (plural Epistles)
Any of the epistles of the Bible
• pelites, septile
Source: Wiktionary
E*pis"tle, n. Etym: [OE. epistle, epistel, AS. epistol, pistol, L. epistola, fr. Gr. epistle, epistre, F. épître. See Stall.]
1. A writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; -- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters. A madman's epistles are no gospels. Shak.
2. (Eccl.)
Definition: One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles. Epistle side, the right side of an altar or church to a person looking from the nave toward the chancel. One sees the pulpit on the epistle side. R. Browning.
E*pis"tle, v. t.
Definition: To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing. [Obs.] Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 January 2025
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
