epistler

e·pis·tler

(ĭ-pĭs′lər)

One who writes an epistle.

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epistler

(ɪˈpɪslə; ɪˈpɪstlə) or

epistoler

n (often capital)

1. (Ecclesiastical Terms) a writer of an epistle or epistles

2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) the person who reads the Epistle in a Christian religious service

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"Improvisation in Fredmans Epistler" Scandinavian Studies 3 (1972).

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He sent Anslinger a particularly revealing comment on Anthony Votta, the Rikers Island epistler from whom we heard at earlier points in this narrative.

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There's simply no mention of Christ being married in the writings of other people, not least of them the epistlers, the Vatican officials say.

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Toon Van Houdt, Jan Papy, Gilbert Tournoy, and Constant Matheeussen, eds. Self-Presentation and Social Identification: The Rhetoric and Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Early Modern Times