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epistolize, v.|ɪˈpɪstəlaɪz|
Also 9 epistlize.
[f. L. epistol-a epistle + -ize.]
1. intr. To write a letter.
c1645Howell Lett. I. i. i, There are some who..Preach when they should Epistolize. 1828Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 117 This may stand over..till I epistolize again. a1834Lamb Final Mem. viii. 278 Very very tired! I began this epistle, having been epistolising all the morning.
2. trans. To write a letter to (a person).
1739Mrs. Delany Autobiog. & Corr. (1861) II. 50 It is not always in my power to do what I like best, or you would have been epistolized much sooner. 1773Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) II. 112 Forgive and epistolize me. 1789Cowper Let. 23 June, I hope it will be long before I shall have occasion to epistolize thee again. 1810Byron Let. H. Drury 3 May, St. Paul need not trouble himself to epistolise the present brood of Ephesians. 1829Whewell in Todhunter Acc. W's Writ. (1876) II. 101, I epistolize you in preference to, etc. 1835Tait's Mag. II. 92 He thus retrospectively epistlized his friend.
Hence eˈpistolizer, a writer of letters. eˈpistolizing vbl. n.
1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. Ded. Note, I should take upon me the usuall straine of a soothing Epistolizer. 1760Sterne Let. 3 Aug. Wks. 1819 IV. 194 A fine set essay in the style of your female epistolizers, cut and trimm'd at all points. 1856Chamb. Jrnl. V. 66 That production so dear to the feminine epistoliser—a crossed letter. a1645Howell Lett. I. iii. xxxvii, Cryptology, or Epistolizing in a Clandestin way. 1715tr. Pancirollus, Rerum Mem. II. xiv. 364 This way of Epistolizing made use of no Notes. 1804Southey Lett. (1856) I. 283 Do you admire the catechistical form of epistolising? |