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Occurring at irregular intervals
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episodic
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Word definitions for episodic in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes; "the book is episodic and the incidents don't always hang together" occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals; "episodic in his affections"; "occasional headaches" [syn: occasional ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 relating to an episode 2 sporadic, happening infrequently and irregularly 3 (context literature English) made up a sequence of seemingly unconnected episodes
Usage examples of episodic.
He was able to craft workable nonaggression pacts with the Gaels, Bos Kashi, and Sons of Freedom that have eliminated the episodic but disastrous interclan wars, while continuing the tradition of individual feuds and vendettas that all these people seem to relish so much.
Granted that psychologists have described a whole taxonomy of memory, procedural and declarative, episodic and semantic, working and reference, should one expect similar underlying biochemical and cellular changes to be involved in each, or would every form of memory have its own special biochemistry?
I have taken the liberty of translating it into a more elevated style and redacting it into a coherent, if episodic narrative, which is copied out below for your majesty’s pleasure.