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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
epistolary
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It is an attempt to reuse the fictional form which first reached exhaustion, that of the epistolary novel.
▪ Richardsonian Principle, the, allusion to the fact that Samuel Richardson's novels are all epistolary in form.
▪ She is in no real need of epistolary adulation.
▪ The discovery of her own capacity for longing catapults Sabrina into a kind of epistolary sublime.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Epistolary

Epistolary \E*pis"to*la*ry\, a. [L. epistolaris, fr. epistola: cf. F. ['e]pistolaire.]

  1. Pertaining to epistles or letters; suitable to letters and correspondence; as, an epistolary style.

  2. Contained in letters; carried on by letters. ``Epistolary correspondence.''
    --Addison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
epistolary

1650s, from French épistolaire, from Late Latin epistolarius "of or belonging to letters," from Latin epistola "a letter, a message" (see epistle). In Middle English as a noun (early 15c.), "book containing epistles read in the Mass," from Medieval Latin epistolarium.

Wiktionary
epistolary

a. 1 of or relating to letters, or the writing of letters 2 carried on by written correspondence 3 in the manner of written correspondence n. a Christian liturgical book containing set readings for church services from the New Testament Epistles.

WordNet
epistolary

adj. written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence; "an endless sequence of epistolary love affairs"; "the epistolatory novel" [syn: epistolatory]

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Epistolary

An epistolary ( Latin: epistolarium) is a Christian liturgical book containing set readings for church services from the New Testament Epistles. In the Catholic Church, it is usually used at a Solemn High Mass. Epistolary means "in the form of a letter or letters". As an adjective it may refer to the following art forms:

  • Epistolary novel
  • Epistolary poem

Usage examples of "epistolary".

King Proetus was the delivery to your late father-in-law of a diplomatic message in epistolary form.

I was sorry to leave Betty, and I kept up an epistolary correspondence with her mother throughout the whole of my stay at St.

A player of his, a young man recently taken into the Navy, hailed from Skipperville, and the player’s mother’s epistolary accounts of the giant who had moved to town to assume the blacksmithery of Millard Goodsell had come to Mr McKissic’s attention via the low route of boardinghouse gossip.

Probably in epistolary format, back-and-forth between a range of fee clients and the wretches responding to them, my novel would partake of the collision of gullibility and indifference, intensity and disdain, all of it as systematized as an assembly line, the authors of the responses as indifferent to the meaning and central absurdity of the situation as swallows in a cathedral.