单词 | epistle writer |
释义 | > as lemmasepistle writer C1. General attributive and objective, as epistle book, epistle writer, etc. ΚΠ 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. ix. f. 139v My epistell booke [L. libello epistolari] whiche I sente vnto yowre holynes. 1692 C. Gildon Post-boy rob'd of his Mail I. Ep. Ded. sig. A4v Discover the difference betwixt these Letters..and those which some Epistle-Writers have publish'd for Examples for the World to Copy after. 1776 London Rev. Eng. & Foreign Lit. Feb. 151 We think the poetical genius of this epistle-writer [sc. Lord Melcombe] hardly ever soars above the level of a commoner. 1859 A. Trollope Bertrams xvii. 175 It was good-humoured, playful, almost witty; too much so for Miss Baker's unassisted epistle-craft, and he at once saw that Caroline had dictated it. 1882 R. B. Westbrook Bible, Whence & What? iv. 36 Paul, the great Epistle-writer, seems not to have been ashamed of his crookedness. 1951 Brit. Museum Q. 16 5 An Epistle-Book made for the Sainte Chapelle at Paris..belongs also to the same school of illumination. 1994 Irish Times (Nexis) 9 Apr. (Suppl.) 9 The epistle-writer also recalls a childhood experience, that of being caught smoking aged eight. < as lemmas |
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