episodic
adjective
pertaining to or of the nature of an episode.
episodical
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a variation of
episodic.
Example Sentences
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Book-writers are apt to be diffuse and episodical, having so extensive a canvas to cover with their literary designs.
From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Ainsworth Rand Spofford
It is not because there was something in the humor of them that Tieck did not grasp, but because he rejects on principle all that is secondary and episodical.
From Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery by George Henry Danton
Doubtless it would not be disagreeable to the indulgent reader to have the history of what had taken place between the stranger lady and the young lawyer inserted here as an episodical novella.
From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
The Lord’s interview with that interesting and earnest tax-farmer in the neighbourhood of Jericho rather constituted an episodical interruption to the continuity of his thought and the narrative of his journey.
From The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot
There is no history in which chance plays so small a part, and in which so little is episodical.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar
