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n.
An epistle.
superl.
Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.
a.
Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition; as, a petitionary epistle.
n.
A psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar.
a.
Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy.
n.
"Our Lord cometh;" -- an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, "May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes." See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema.
v. t.
To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
n.
A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.
a.
Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle.
n.
A writer of epistles.
n.
A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.
n.
A decretal epistle.
a.
Of or pertaining to the apostle Paul, or his writings; resembling, or conforming to, the writings of Paul; as, the Pauline epistles; Pauline doctrine.
n.
An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.
n.
The art or practice of writing epistles.
a.
Of or pertaining to St.Peter; as, the Petrine Epistles.
n.
A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament.
n.
Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law.
n.
The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service.
n.
A letter; an epistle.
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