Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who writes an epistle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer of epistles.
- noun In the Anglican Ch., the bishop, priest, or deacon who acts as subdeacon at the celebration of the eucharist or holy communion: so called from his office of reading the liturgical epistle, in distinction from the gospeler or deacon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament.
- noun (Eccl.) The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
writer of anepistle . - noun The
ecclesiastic who reads theepistle at thecommunion service .
Etymologies
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First he had there a dean, a great divine, and a man of excellent learning; and a sub-dean, a repeater of the choir, a gospeller and epistler of the singing-priests, and a master of the children
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First, he had there a dean, a great divine, and a man of excellent learning; and a sub-dean, a repeater of the choir, a gospeller, an epistler of the singing-priests, and a master of the children: in the vestry a yeoman and two grooms, besides other retainers that came thither at principal feasts ....
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Your fellow epistler Walter Bradley co-authored the 1984 creationist book _The Mystery of Life’s Origin_, and his creationist paper “The trustworthiness of scripture in areas relating to natural science” is online.
A critique of Himmelfarb's scientific views - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Your fellow epistler Walter Bradley co-authored the 1984 creationist book _The Mystery of Life’s Origin_, and his creationist paper “The trustworthiness of scripture in areas relating to natural science” is online.
The Discovery Institute and publications - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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