epistoler

[ ih-pis-tl-er ]

noun

1. Also epistolist. a writer of an epistle.
2. the person who reads or chants the epistle in the Eucharistic service.

Word History and Origins

Origin of epistoler¹

1520–30; < Latin epistol ( a ) epistle + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Perhaps there is, at any rate in the earlier letters, something of this unkemptness in Keats as an epistoler.

From Project Gutenberg

Howell, the epistoler, admitted her (in rather execrable verse) to that Tenth Museship which has had so many fair incumbents.

From Project Gutenberg

But there is enough of this to make him a noteworthy epistoler.

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Related Words

• letter writer