Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to letters or epistles; epistolary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to
letters orepistles ; in the form or style of letters;epistolary .
Etymologies
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from Latin epīstolicus, from Ancient Greek ἐπιστολικός (epistolikos, "suited to or in the style of a letter").
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Examples
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Being an inveterate experimentalist though, every other story ended up being told as some non-linear, multi-viewpoint mosaic (like the Jack Flash sections) or in an epistolic form as letters and journal entries (like in the Caucasus sections).
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Hal Duncan 2006
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They've had to either in person or by letter submit a resignation to the pope, presumably they talked first to the epistolic nuncio, and then it rests with the pope to decide whether or not to accept a resignation.
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