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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Epistle \E*pis"tle\, v. t. To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing. [Obs.] --Milton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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; 'epi` upon to + ? to dispatch, send cf OF epistle, epistre, F. ['e]p[^i]tre. 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.) 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: epistle n : especially a long, formal letter
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