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epistoler

[ ih-pis-tl-er ]
/ ɪˈpɪs tl ər /
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noun

Also e·pis·to·list. a writer of an epistle.
the person who reads or chants the epistle in the Eucharistic service.

RELATED WORDS

correspondent

Nearby words

epistle side, epistle to the galatians, epistler, epistolary, epistolary novel, epistoler, epistolic, epistolize, epistolography, epistrophe, epistropheus
Also e·pis·tler [ih-pis-ler, ih-pist-] /ɪˈpɪs lər, ɪˈpɪst-/.

Origin of epistoler

1520–30; < Latin epistol(a) epistle + -er1
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for epistoler

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

    Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, Vol III|John Cleveland

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

    A Letter Book|George Saintsbury