单词 | epistolar |
释义 | epistolarn. Christian Church. The book from which the Epistle (epistle n. 2b) is read at a church service. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > lectionary > [noun] > containing extract from epistles pistelarieOE epistolarc1530 c1530 in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) II. 340 Two Claspes for the great Apistiller of silver and gilte. 1618 ( Inventory in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 184 Item a gospeler and a epistolere a year with a plate on them of Copper and gilt. 1888 Trans. Royal Inst. Brit. Architects 4 153 On each side were the pulpits, that on the south side being the Gospel pulpit, and the one on the north forming a lectern for the Epistolar. 1911 J. A. Herbert Illuminated Manuscripts ix. 170 The Byzantine parentage of the Epistolar is obvious. 1992 H. M. Nixon & M. M. Foot Hist. Decorated Bookbinding i. 22 The four holes on the Epistolar's wooden cover would be in the natural places to attach a crucifix. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). epistolaradj. = epistolary adj. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > parts of service > epistle > [adjective] epistolarc1450 epistolary1707 society > communication > book > matter of book > [adjective] > dedication dedicatory1565 epistolar1579 dedicated1609 epistolary1646 society > communication > correspondence > letter > [adjective] paper1592 epistolical1615 epistolary1627 epistolar1649 literal1650 literary1656 epistolic1670 epistolatory1675 c1450 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1842) III. i. 201 Item ane buk epistlar for the lettron of the pistill. 1579 T. Twyne tr. Petrarch Phisicke against Fortune ii. Ep. Ded. 153 a The Epistolare Preface of Frauncis Petrarche. 1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions ii. ii. 108 I have long agoe spent my opinion upon this point in a large epistolar discourse. 1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel Pref. p. l The third is of the Epistolar Prophecy in the Apocalypse. 1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 49 His Epistolar Stile..was rather copious than eloquent. 1768 Woman of Honor III. xxviii. 2 It is then rather an epistolar pamphlet. 1821 Ld. Byron Let. 12 Oct. (1978) VIII. 242 And do not exaggerate that turgid epistolar imagination of Santa Chiara. 1910 Every Where Feb. 327 But that day the young man indited his letter, Is named for the good man whose spirit still hovers O'er diffident maidens and timid young lovers, And still the day's used for epistolar mooning, And thinly dissembled anonymous spooning. 1932 J. Bithell Germany (1955) ix. 265 It was for such a vision of ancient Hellas that the hero of the epistolar prose romance Hyperion (1797–99) longed in vain. 1998 News (Mexico City) (Nexis) 18 Oct. The form of the story is epistolar, as in the moral fables of the 18th century. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1530adj.c1450 |
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