单词 | epistler |
释义 | epistlern. 1. Christian Church. = epistoler n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > deacon > epistoler > [noun] pistelerc1475 epistoler?c1525 epistler?a1562 subdeacon1865 postiller1891 ?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 14 A Gospeller and Epistler of the singing Priests. 1604 tr. Constit. & Canons Ecclesiasticall 1603 xxiv. sig. Fv The principall Minister vsing a decent Coape, and being assisted with the Gospeller and Epistler. a1628 (?1506) Reception Philip I of Castile in MS Vesp. C.xii f. 284v The Bushope of Cheechester gospeler the Bushope of Norwiche Epistelere. 1667 Omnia Comesta a Belo 9 Gospelers, Epistelers, Virgers. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Peterborough Besides the D. and C...here are 8 petty canons,..1 epistler, 1 gospeller. 1843 Church Intelligencer 9 Aug. 751/2 Service commenced at half-past ten, the Rector, the Rev. J. F. Russell, with the Epistler and Gospeller, the Revs. Mr. Dunster and J. M. Neale, taking their seats within the rails; the remaining Clergy were seated stall-wise. 1892 Dict. National Biogr. at Lawes, Henry He was sworn in as pisteller or epistler of the Chapel Royal, 1 Jan. 1625–6. 1930 Hamilton (Ohio) Evening Jrnl. 22 Dec. 17/2 The Rev. D. A. Cassetta will be the celebrant, with H. L. Coles assisting as epistler. 1980 Twin Falls (Idaho) Times News 10 May a4/3 The Epistler was convention special guest, Ms. Davis. 2. Chiefly literary or (in later use) humorous. The writer of an epistle (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter-writing > [noun] > letter-writer secretary1587 epistler1592 epistolizer1615 letter writer1615 epistoler1620 epistolographer1687 scribe1712 epistolist1743 epistolarian1807 epistolographist1818 epistolean1819 society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] bookerOE writerOE makerc1350 authora1382 inditera1387 pena1398 poetc1400 bookmakera1425 ditera1425 compilera1500 compositor?1533 book writer1565 penner1568 authorizera1579 bookwright1583 scribe1584 epistler1592 penman1592 scriptora1600 composer1603 book-breeder1605 comprisor?1623 volumist1641 scrivenera1660 literatist1660 knight of the quill1692 belletrist1816 scriever1825 creative writer1854 penworker1876 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes Ep. Ded. sig. A3v This Epistler..extolling himselfe and his two brothers in euerie booke he writes. 1610 Bp. J. Hall Common Apol. against Brownists §13 Let this ignorant epistler teach his censorious answerer. 1657 T. Hobbes Στιγμαι in Wks. (1845) VII. 379 The best of your half-learnt epistlers. 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 29 The young Epistler is Yours to the Antipodes. 1711 J. Thomas Answer J. O's Arguments for Ordination by Presbyters p. xvi Our Epistler says, This is a Notion that [etc.]. 1788 W. Hawtayn Let. Jan. in J. Elphinston Forty Years Corr. between Geniusses ov Boath Sexes (1791) III. cccxxix. 234 Widh dhe true eze ov hwat Jonson calls an epistler..he [sc. Pliny] complied widh Septiscius' request, to' pubblish his letters. 1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma viii. 265 So our Epistler says, ‘God is love’. 1996 Observer (Nexis) 22 Dec. 10 Merry Christmas to all our readers—and to all our regular and occasional epistlers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1562 |
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