pistlen.

Brit.

/ˈpɪsl/, U.S.

/ˈpɪs(ə)l/

Forms: Old English–1500s pistel, Old English–1500s pistol, Middle English pistell, Middle English pistil, Middle English pistill, Middle English pistyl, Middle English pistyll, Middle English pistylle, Middle English pystil, Middle English pystill, Middle English–1500s pistille, Middle English–1500s pystel, Middle English–1500s pystyl, Middle English–1500s pystyll, Middle English–1600s 1800s– pistle, 1500s pistelle, 1500s pistoll, 1500s pystell, 1500s pystle, 1600s– 'pistle, 1800s– pis'le (English regional (Yorkshire)); also Scottish pre-1700 pestill, pre-1700 pistil, pre-1700 pistill, pre-1700 pystil, pre-1700 pystill, pre-1700 1700s pystle, pre-1700 1900s– pistol, 1700s 'pystle. N.E.D. (1907) also records forms late Middle English pistul, late Middle English pystell, late Middle English pystol, late Middle English pystylle.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: epistle n.

Etymology: Aphetic < epistle n.

Now rare.

1. A communication in writing; a letter; a literary work or dedication in the form of a letter; = epistle n. 1. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun]

epistleeOE

pistleOE

writOE

letter?c1225

brief1330

writingc1384

missive letter1519

scroll1534

missive?1553

scrieve1581

favour1645

chitty1698

chit1757

mail letter1799

OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 72 Ða awrat se earming mid his agenra hande swa swa se deofol him gedihte þone pistol.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Dan. iii. 97 In to eche lond he [sc. the king] sente a pistle.

Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 4 This article is taught bi seynt Jerom in hise pistlis.

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 6543 (MED) Of wham es writen in a pistel þus, Þat Pilat sent til Tyberius.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 202/1 Saynt Leo wrote a pistle to fabyane bisshop of constantynople ayenst euticium and nestorium.

1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes ii, in Wks. 178/2 A pistle of Plinye wrytten to the Emperoure Trayane.

1595 Eng. Tripe-wife (1881) 145 Your Pamphlet lackes both a Pistle and a Patrone.

1611 J. Davies Scourge of Folly 241 But wretched I..None, no not one, a 'Pistle now can frame, T'addresse their Workes to any Personage.

1787 R. Burns Let. 1 June (2001) I. 120 I was gaun to write you a lang pystle.

1811 T. Moore M.P. or Blue-stocking iii. ii. 69 Nothing but write, write, and them pistles (as she calls them) going off from morning till night.

1915 S. P. Sherman Let. 31 Jan. in J. Zeitlin & H. Woodbridge Life & Lett. S. P. Sherman (1929) I. xiv. 261 I'm not sure quite how damnatory your latest 'pistle was intended to be.

†2. Christian Church.

a. A letter from an Apostle, forming part of the New Testament; = epistle n. 2a. Also (occasionally) in plural with singular agreement: these letters collectively. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > epistle > [noun]

epistleeOE

pistleOE

Romen1397

OE Ælfric Let. to Sigeweard (De Veteri et Novo Test.) (Laud) 56 Iacob se rihtwisa awrat anne pistol micelne on lare mannum to understandenne.

c1175 ( Ælfric Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 43 Iohannes þe apostol..awrat on his pistole, ðissum wordum cwæðende.

a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 31 San(c)tus Paulus us takð on his pisteles.

c1395 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 1154 As seith Seint Iame if ye his pistel rede.

a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 7122 Se now what seynt Poule seys Yn a pystyl.

?c1430 Stipendiis Ministrorum in T. Arnold Sel. Eng. Wks. J. Wyclif (1871) III. 202 (MED) Exponitouris on þe gospellis and pistelis.

a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome f. 296, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pistil(l The pistolis of Sanct Paule.

1551 R. Crowley Pleasure & Payne sig. Biv^v And in Iohns Pistle these wordis be.

1603 T. Dekker et al. Patient Grissill sig. L^v By Cod is true as Pistle and Gospel.

1664 T. Killigrew Thomaso iii. i, in Comedies & Trag. 344 Pistle and Gospel with Common-prayer by the Tune.

b. An extract from an apostolic letter (or occasionally more generally any Scriptural book) read as part of the Eucharistic service; = epistle n. 2b. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > parts of service > epistle > [noun]

pistleOE

epistlea1450

OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) (1993) xlix. 101 Deinde legitur epistola ‘Si consurrexistis’ et cantatur ‘Alleluia. Confitemi Domino’ : syþþan byþ rædd se pistol Si consurrexistis & byþ gesungen Alleluia. Confitemi Domino.

a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily In Die Sancto Pentecosten (Lamb. 487) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 89 Hit is ireht on þes pistles redinge [OE Royal on ðisere pistolrædinge].

c1384 Table of Lessons in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (1850) 683 Here bigynneth a rule, that tellith in whiche chapitris of the bible ȝe mai fynde the lessouns, pistlis, and gospels, that ben rad in the chirche al the ȝeer.

a1425 in Englische Studien (1904) 33 19 If þou oght of letterure cane Vnto preste herkyn þu þan, Hys office, praies, and pystill.

?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 106 (MED) The pistell upon the feest of Alhalwynne.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 119 (MED) As euer red I pystyll.

1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 126 The pystel that is redde in the masse.

1590 H. Barrow in H. Barrow & J. Greenwood Coll. Certain Lett. & Conf. i. 8 The Papists..haue the same Creedes,..Pistles, Gospels.

1638 H. Adamson Muses Threnodie 55 This good Priest did lay them [sc. the dead bodies] on the altar, And all night read the pistle, and the psalter.

†3. A spoken story or discourse. Frequently in to round a pistle in (a person's) ear: to whisper a story, etc., to someone. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account

talec1200

historyc1230

sawc1320

tellinga1325

treatisec1374

chroniclec1380

process?1387

legendc1390

prosec1390

pistlec1395

treatc1400

relationc1425

rehearsal?a1439

report?a1439

narrationc1449

recorda1450

count1477

redec1480

story1489

recount1490

deductiona1532

repetition1533

narrative1539

discourse1546

account1561

recital1561

enarrative1575

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recite1594

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texture1611

recitation1614

rendera1616

prospect1625

recitement1646

tell1743

diegesis1829

récit1915

narrative line1953

c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 1021 Tho rowned she a pistel in his ere.

?c1425 T. Hoccleve Jonathas (Durh.) l. 167 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 221 He a pistle rowned in hire ere.

1479 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 615 When I was wyth myn oncle I had a longe pystyll of hym that [etc.].

1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 184 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 266 Scho rownis than ane pistill in his eir.

1614 W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. B5 He a pistle rowned in her eare, Nat wot I what, for I ne came nat there.

1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. 102 Of a wordy woman, it will be said, that she ‘went naggering on with a long pis'le that it would have tired a horse to stand and listen to’.

†4. A written story or legend. Obsolete.Frequently with reference to the story of Susanna (Daniel 13 in the Vulgate), which was used as the Lesson or Epistle of the Mass for the third Saturday in Lent; cf. sense 2b.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun]

spellc888

talea1060

book-spellc1275

pistlec1400

treatyc1400

narrationc1449

story1489

reportory1534

narrative1566

reportary1594

monogatari1876

récit1915

diegesis1973

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun] > a legend or folk tale

pistlec1400

legend1581

saga1845

Märchen1869

folk-epic1904

c1400 Pistel of Swete Susan (Simeon) 190 (MED) Here bygynneþ a pistel of Susan.

c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 178 (MED) In the pistel of the magdaleyne.

a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 4312 He [sc. Hucheoun] made a gret Gest of Arthure, And þe Awntyr of Gawane, Þe Pistil als of Suet Susane.

Compounds

C1.

† pistle making n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper A iij b I haue as good a gift in pistle making, as you haue at priemeero.

† pistle-penner n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet sig. D2 I am worth twentie Pistle-penners.

† pistle-reading n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxi. 345 Lucas se Godspellere us manode on þissre pistolrædinge, þus cweþende [etc.].

C2.

pistle-book n. now historical and rare a book from which the Epistles are read at a Eucharist service.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > other books > [noun] > containing the epistles

pistle-book1434

OE Ælfric Let. to Wulfsige (Corpus Cambr.) in B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics (1914) 13 Saltere and pistolboc, godspellboc and mæsseboc.

1434 Inventory in Archaeologia (1888) 51 66 (MED) Cum uno alio libro vocato le pistelboke.

1559 Will of Thome (Somerset Ho.) To y^e cherche to-whordes a pystyll book.

1911 E. Duncan Story of Carol 224 (gloss.) Pistol book (‘Pistle-book’), epistle-book.

pistle-cloth n. †(a) a vestment worn by the epistler (obsolete); (b) a cloth covering for the books of the Epistles (historical and rare).

ΚΠ

lOE Rec. Gifts of Bp. Æðelwold to Peterborough (Sawyer 1448) in S. E. Kelly Charters of Peterborough Abbey (2009) 324 iiii cæppan & i roc, & viii stolan, emfela handlina, & xi subumbrale, & ii pistolclaþas, & iii corporale, [etc.].

1907 N.E.D. (at cited word) Pistle-cloth, a cloth covering or wrapper for the books of the epistles.

† pistle-reader n. Christian Church Obsolete = epistler n. 1; a subdeacon.

ΚΠ

OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) (1993) xxxiv. 68 Sacerdos, diaconus ac subdiaconus : sacerd diacon & pistelrædere.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	pistle
释义	pistlen. Brit. /ˈpɪsl/, U.S. /ˈpɪs(ə)l/ Forms: Old English–1500s pistel, Old English–1500s pistol, Middle English pistell, Middle English pistil, Middle English pistill, Middle English pistyl, Middle English pistyll, Middle English pistylle, Middle English pystil, Middle English pystill, Middle English–1500s pistille, Middle English–1500s pystel, Middle English–1500s pystyl, Middle English–1500s pystyll, Middle English–1600s 1800s– pistle, 1500s pistelle, 1500s pistoll, 1500s pystell, 1500s pystle, 1600s– 'pistle, 1800s– pis'le (English regional (Yorkshire)); also Scottish pre-1700 pestill, pre-1700 pistil, pre-1700 pistill, pre-1700 pystil, pre-1700 pystill, pre-1700 1700s pystle, pre-1700 1900s– pistol, 1700s 'pystle. N.E.D. (1907) also records forms late Middle English pistul, late Middle English pystell, late Middle English pystol, late Middle English pystylle. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: epistle n. Etymology: Aphetic < epistle n. Now rare. 1. A communication in writing; a letter; a literary work or dedication in the form of a letter; = epistle n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] epistleeOE pistleOE writOE letter?c1225 brief1330 writingc1384 missive letter1519 scroll1534 missive?1553 scrieve1581 favour1645 chitty1698 chit1757 mail letter1799 OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 72 Ða awrat se earming mid his agenra hande swa swa se deofol him gedihte þone pistol. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Dan. iii. 97 In to eche lond he [sc. the king] sente a pistle. Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 4 This article is taught bi seynt Jerom in hise pistlis. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 6543 (MED) Of wham es writen in a pistel þus, Þat Pilat sent til Tyberius. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 202/1 Saynt Leo wrote a pistle to fabyane bisshop of constantynople ayenst euticium and nestorium. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes ii, in Wks. 178/2 A pistle of Plinye wrytten to the Emperoure Trayane. 1595 Eng. Tripe-wife (1881) 145 Your Pamphlet lackes both a Pistle and a Patrone. 1611 J. Davies Scourge of Folly 241 But wretched I..None, no not one, a 'Pistle now can frame, T'addresse their Workes to any Personage. 1787 R. Burns Let. 1 June (2001) I. 120 I was gaun to write you a lang pystle. 1811 T. Moore M.P. or Blue-stocking iii. ii. 69 Nothing but write, write, and them pistles (as she calls them) going off from morning till night. 1915 S. P. Sherman Let. 31 Jan. in J. Zeitlin & H. Woodbridge Life & Lett. S. P. Sherman (1929) I. xiv. 261 I'm not sure quite how damnatory your latest 'pistle was intended to be. †2. Christian Church. a. A letter from an Apostle, forming part of the New Testament; = epistle n. 2a. Also (occasionally) in plural with singular agreement: these letters collectively. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > epistle > [noun] epistleeOE pistleOE Romen1397 OE Ælfric Let. to Sigeweard (De Veteri et Novo Test.) (Laud) 56 Iacob se rihtwisa awrat anne pistol micelne on lare mannum to understandenne. c1175 ( Ælfric Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 43 Iohannes þe apostol..awrat on his pistole, ðissum wordum cwæðende. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 31 San(c)tus Paulus us takð on his pisteles. c1395 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 1154 As seith Seint Iame if ye his pistel rede. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 7122 Se now what seynt Poule seys Yn a pystyl. ?c1430 Stipendiis Ministrorum in T. Arnold Sel. Eng. Wks. J. Wyclif (1871) III. 202 (MED) Exponitouris on þe gospellis and pistelis. a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome f. 296, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pistil(l The pistolis of Sanct Paule. 1551 R. Crowley Pleasure & Payne sig. Biv^v And in Iohns Pistle these wordis be. 1603 T. Dekker et al. Patient Grissill sig. L^v By Cod is true as Pistle and Gospel. 1664 T. Killigrew Thomaso iii. i, in Comedies & Trag. 344 Pistle and Gospel with Common-prayer by the Tune. b. An extract from an apostolic letter (or occasionally more generally any Scriptural book) read as part of the Eucharistic service; = epistle n. 2b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > parts of service > epistle > [noun] pistleOE epistlea1450 OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) (1993) xlix. 101 Deinde legitur epistola ‘Si consurrexistis’ et cantatur ‘Alleluia. Confitemi Domino’ : syþþan byþ rædd se pistol Si consurrexistis & byþ gesungen Alleluia. Confitemi Domino. a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily In Die Sancto Pentecosten (Lamb. 487) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 89 Hit is ireht on þes pistles redinge [OE Royal on ðisere pistolrædinge]. c1384 Table of Lessons in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (1850) 683 Here bigynneth a rule, that tellith in whiche chapitris of the bible ȝe mai fynde the lessouns, pistlis, and gospels, that ben rad in the chirche al the ȝeer. a1425 in Englische Studien (1904) 33 19 If þou oght of letterure cane Vnto preste herkyn þu þan, Hys office, praies, and pystill. ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 106 (MED) The pistell upon the feest of Alhalwynne. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 119 (MED) As euer red I pystyll. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 126 The pystel that is redde in the masse. 1590 H. Barrow in H. Barrow & J. Greenwood Coll. Certain Lett. & Conf. i. 8 The Papists..haue the same Creedes,..Pistles, Gospels. 1638 H. Adamson Muses Threnodie 55 This good Priest did lay them [sc. the dead bodies] on the altar, And all night read the pistle, and the psalter. †3. A spoken story or discourse. Frequently in to round a pistle in (a person's) ear: to whisper a story, etc., to someone. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account talec1200 historyc1230 sawc1320 tellinga1325 treatisec1374 chroniclec1380 process?1387 legendc1390 prosec1390 pistlec1395 treatc1400 relationc1425 rehearsal?a1439 report?a1439 narrationc1449 recorda1450 count1477 redec1480 story1489 recount1490 deductiona1532 repetition1533 narrative1539 discourse1546 account1561 recital1561 enarrative1575 legendary1577 enarration1592 recite1594 repeat1609 texture1611 recitation1614 rendera1616 prospect1625 recitement1646 tell1743 diegesis1829 récit1915 narrative line1953 c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 1021 Tho rowned she a pistel in his ere. ?c1425 T. Hoccleve Jonathas (Durh.) l. 167 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 221 He a pistle rowned in hire ere. 1479 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 615 When I was wyth myn oncle I had a longe pystyll of hym that [etc.]. 1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 184 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 266 Scho rownis than ane pistill in his eir. 1614 W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. B5 He a pistle rowned in her eare, Nat wot I what, for I ne came nat there. 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. 102 Of a wordy woman, it will be said, that she ‘went naggering on with a long pis'le that it would have tired a horse to stand and listen to’. †4. A written story or legend. Obsolete.Frequently with reference to the story of Susanna (Daniel 13 in the Vulgate), which was used as the Lesson or Epistle of the Mass for the third Saturday in Lent; cf. sense 2b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] spellc888 talea1060 book-spellc1275 pistlec1400 treatyc1400 narrationc1449 story1489 reportory1534 narrative1566 reportary1594 monogatari1876 récit1915 diegesis1973 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun] > a legend or folk tale pistlec1400 legend1581 saga1845 Märchen1869 folk-epic1904 c1400 Pistel of Swete Susan (Simeon) 190 (MED) Here bygynneþ a pistel of Susan. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 178 (MED) In the pistel of the magdaleyne. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 4312 He [sc. Hucheoun] made a gret Gest of Arthure, And þe Awntyr of Gawane, Þe Pistil als of Suet Susane. Compounds C1. † pistle making n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper A iij b I haue as good a gift in pistle making, as you haue at priemeero. † pistle-penner n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet sig. D2 I am worth twentie Pistle-penners. † pistle-reading n. Obsolete ΚΠ OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxi. 345 Lucas se Godspellere us manode on þissre pistolrædinge, þus cweþende [etc.]. C2. pistle-book n. now historical and rare a book from which the Epistles are read at a Eucharist service. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > other books > [noun] > containing the epistles pistle-book1434 OE Ælfric Let. to Wulfsige (Corpus Cambr.) in B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics (1914) 13 Saltere and pistolboc, godspellboc and mæsseboc. 1434 Inventory in Archaeologia (1888) 51 66 (MED) Cum uno alio libro vocato le pistelboke. 1559 Will of Thome (Somerset Ho.) To y^e cherche to-whordes a pystyll book. 1911 E. Duncan Story of Carol 224 (gloss.) Pistol book (‘Pistle-book’), epistle-book. pistle-cloth n. †(a) a vestment worn by the epistler (obsolete); (b) a cloth covering for the books of the Epistles (historical and rare). ΚΠ lOE Rec. Gifts of Bp. Æðelwold to Peterborough (Sawyer 1448) in S. E. Kelly Charters of Peterborough Abbey (2009) 324 iiii cæppan & i roc, & viii stolan, emfela handlina, & xi subumbrale, & ii pistolclaþas, & iii corporale, [etc.]. 1907 N.E.D. (at cited word) Pistle-cloth, a cloth covering or wrapper for the books of the epistles. † pistle-reader n. Christian Church Obsolete = epistler n. 1; a subdeacon. ΚΠ OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) (1993) xxxiv. 68 Sacerdos, diaconus ac subdiaconus : sacerd diacon & pistelrædere. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † pistlev. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pistle n. Etymology: < pistle n., perhaps punningly after pestle v. Obsolete. transitive. To write an epistle upon, to satirize.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > express in written work or write about > satirize or lampoon billc1450 pistle1589 canvass1590 satirize1619 squib1631 pasquila1648 lampoona1657 pasquin1683 parodize1768 pasquinade1779 besquib1813 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet sig. D Take heed, he will pistle thee. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.OEv.1589
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pistlen.

Compounds

† pistlev.