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
31 March 2025
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