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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
episodic
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an episodic TV program
▪ This illness is characterized by episodic neck pain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Despite appearances, El Retablo is neither episodic, nor meant to sound unpolished.
▪ Most fieldwork is simply episodic, made by an outsider moving in for a period to assess observed social behaviour.
▪ Nothing is world-wide, but everything is episodic.
▪ Repetitions, as in a child practicing handwriting, are what distinguish procedural memories from episodic ones.
▪ So long as these remain at the centre of any newsgathering institution, then the risk of episodic and trivial coverage increases.
▪ The events are presented in episodic form, as a continuous narrative tossed antiphonally to and fro between the actresses.
▪ The problem is especially serious for an episodic memory, which is a unique category that ties together a series of elements.
▪ These infections may be accompanied by clinically undetected baseline and episodic hypoxaemia.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Episodic

Episodic \Ep`i*so"dic\, Episodical \Ep`i*so"dic*al\, a. [Cf. F. Of or pertaining to an episode; adventitious. -- Ep`i*so"dic*al*ly, adv.

Such a figure as Jacob Brattle, purely episodical though it be, is an excellent English portrait.
--H. James. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
episodic

1711, from episode + -ic. Episodical is from 1660s.

Wiktionary
episodic

a. 1 relating to an episode 2 sporadic, happening infrequently and irregularly 3 (context literature English) made up a sequence of seemingly unconnected episodes

WordNet
episodic
  1. adj. of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes; "the book is episodic and the incidents don't always hang together"

  2. occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals; "episodic in his affections"; "occasional headaches" [syn: occasional]

  3. limited in duration to a single episode; "an account concerned primarily with episodic events such as the succession of rulers"

Wikipedia
Episodic

Episodic may refer to:

  • The nature of television series that are divided into short programs known as episodes
  • Episodic memory, types of memory that result from specific incidents in a lifetime
  • In Geology, episodic refers to events that occur or have occurred periodically
  • Episodic writing, a publishing format by which a single large work is presented in contiguous (typically chronological) installments
  • Episodic video game, a video game of a shorter length that is commercially released as an installment

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.