epistler
(ɪˈpɪstlə(r))
Also 7 episteler.
[f. as prec. + -er1. Cf. epistoler.]
1. The writer of an epistle.
| 1610 Bp. Hall Apol. Brownists §13 Let this ignorant epistler teach his censorious answerer. 1657 Hobbes Absurd Geom. Wks. 1845 VII. 379 The best of your half-learnt epistlers. 1670 Eachard Cent. Clergy 37 (T.) The young epistler is yours to the antipodes. 1876 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma 277 So our Epistler says, ‘God is love’. |
2. Eccl. = epistoler 2.
| 16.. Canons Ch. Eng. xxiv. (T.), The principal minister using a decent cope, and being assisted with the Gospeller and Epistler. 1641 Life & Death Wolsey in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 102 A gospeller and epistler of the singing priests. 1667 Answ. West to North 9 Gospelers, Epistelers, Virgers. 1721–1800 in Bailey; and in mod. Dicts. |