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episode|ˈɛpɪsəʊd|
Also 7–8 episod.
[a. Gr. ἐπεισόδ-ιον, neut. of ἐπεισόδ-ιος coming in besides, f. ἐπί in addition + εἴσοδος entering, f. εἰς into + ὁδός way. Cf. Fr. épisode.]
1. In the Old Greek Tragedy, the interlocutory parts between two choric songs, because these were originally interpolations.
1678T. Rymer Trag. Last Age 12 Thespis introduc'd the Episods, and brought an Actor on the stage. 1762J. Brown Poetry & Mus. iv. (1763) 42 Not only the Part of the tragic Choir, but the Episode or interlocutory Part would be also sung. a1789Burney Hist. Mus. (ed. 2) I. viii. 146 The custom of setting the Episodes as the acts of a play.
2. An incidental narrative or digression in a poem, story, etc., separable from the main subject, yet arising naturally from it.
1679Dryden Dram. Wks. 369 The happy Episode of Theseus and Dirce. 1780Jas. Harris Wks. (1841) 423 The dry didactic character of the Georgics [of Virgil] made it necessary they should be enlivened by episodes and digressions. 1839Thirlwall Greece II. 183 Herodotus introduces an episode, which..seems..at first sight strangely misplaced. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. i. 11 Familiar episodes, belonging to the medieval ‘Reynard the Fox’.
3. transf. An incidental ‘passage’ in a person's life, in the history of a country, the world, an institution, etc.
1773Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. ii. i, The terrors of a formal courtship, together with the episode of aunts, grandmothers and cousins. 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 100 To answer..a hundred letters in a week, by way of episode in your other labours. 1875Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 10) I. i. x. 203 Like the Glacial episode before mentioned. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) V. ix. vii. 368 The conquest of Constantinople by the Latins, that strange and romantic episode in the history of the Crusades.
4. Mus. (See quot.) Also in other musical forms (see quot. 19471).
1869Ouseley Counterp. xxii. 169 In ordinary fugues..it is usual to allow a certain number of bars to intervene from time to time, after which the subject is resumed..The intervening bars thus introduced are called Episodes. 1947Penguin Music Mag. Dec. 29 Italian Symphony. A fresh subject (in technical language an ‘episode’) is introduced. 1947A. Einstein Mus. Romantic Era xvii. 311 It might even be called a rondo with varied theme and alternating episodes.
Add:[2.] b. Each of the instalments into which a film, television or radio drama, etc. is divided for transmitting as a series.
1915Moving Picture World 13 Nov. 1320/1 The second episode, ‘A Voice from the Wilderness’, makes an offering worthy of attention. 1931B. B. Hampton Hist. Movies Pl. 32 (caption) Pearl White in an episode from the famous serial, The Perils of Pauline. 1933[see serial a. A. b]. 1962E. Barnouw Television Writer ii. 56 Some of its episodes may become television classics. 1981P. Kerr in T. Bennett et al. Popular TV & Film i. v. 78 Episode five..opens not with an enigma but rather with a cliché; the discovery of a man holding a gun. 1990Rolling Stone 22 Mar. 54/3 ABC ordered seven more episodes after seeing the pilot. |