Definition of epistle

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

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Decretal :: Decretal (a.) Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as, a decretal epistle..
Extravagant :: Extravagant (n.) Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law..
Epistoler :: Epistoler (n.) One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler.
Epistler :: Epistler (n.) A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament..
Epistolet :: Epistolet (n.) A little epistle.
Letter :: Letter (n.) A letter; an epistle.
Introit :: Introit (n.) A psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar..
Ethical :: Ethical (a.) Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy..
Epistolizer :: Epistolizer (n.) A writer of epistles.
Stratarithmetry :: Stratagemical (a.) Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle..
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A decretal epistle.
Epistler :: Epistler (n.) The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service.
Epistolical :: Epistolical (a.) Pertaining to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary.
Epistle :: Epistle (n.) One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles.
Letter :: Letter (n.) A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle..
Epistle :: Epistle (n.) A writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; -- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters..
Antilegomena :: Antilegomena (n. pl.) Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena..
Maranatha :: Maranatha (n.) Our Lord cometh; -- an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes. See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema..
Epistle :: Epistle (v. t.) To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.
Gradual :: Gradual (n.) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps..
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