epistle

[E*pis·tle]

A book of the New Testament written in the form of a letter from an Apostle

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A writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; -- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters.

Noun
especially a long, formal letter

n.
A writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; -- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters.

n.
One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles.

v. t.
To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.

Epistle

E*pis"tle , n. [OE. epistle, epistel, AS. epistol, pistol, L. epistola, fr. Gr. anything sent by a messenger, message, letter, fr. to send to, tell by letter or message; upon, to + to dispatch, send; cf. OF. epistle, epistre, F. '82p'8ctre. 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.

2. (Eccl.) 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.

Epistle

E*pis"tle, v. t. To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing. [Obs.] Milton.

A writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; -- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters.

To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.

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The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

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