Word Meanings - EPISTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles. Epistle side, the right side of an altar or church to a person looking from the nave toward the chancel. One sees the pulpit on the epistle side.

Additional info about word: EPISTLE

One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles. Epistle side, the right side of an altar or church to a person looking from the nave toward the chancel. One sees the pulpit on the epistle side. R. Browning. (more info) 1. A writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; -- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters. A madman's epistles are no gospels. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EPISTLE)

• Letter
• Epistle
• note
• communication
• message
• missive

Related words: (words related to EPISTLE)

• MESSAGE STICK
  A stick, carved with lines and dots, used, esp. by Australian aborigines, to convey information.
• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• COMMUNICATION
  A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie. Syn. -- Correspondence; conference; intercourse. (more info) 1. The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of
• LETTERN
  See LECTURN
• MESSAGER
  A messenger.
• LETTER
  One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
• LETTERPRESS
  Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
• EPISTLER
  The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service. (more info) 1. A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament. M. Arnold.
• LETTERLESS
  1. Not having a letter. 2. Illiterate. E. Waterhouse.
• EPISTLE
  One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles. Epistle side, the right side of an altar or church to a person looking from the nave toward the chancel. One sees the pulpit on the epistle side.
• LETTERWOOD
  The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum , found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for
• LETTERING
  1. The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting. 2. The letters made; as, the lettering of a sign.
• MESSAGE
  1. Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another. Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. Judg. iii. 20. 2. Hence, specifically, an official communication, not made in person, but delivered by a
• LETTERGRAM
  See ABOVE
• MISSIVE
  1. Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent; as, a letter missive. Ayliffe. 2. Missile. "The missive weapons fly." Dryden. Letters missive, letters conveying the permission, comand, or advice of a superior authority, as a sovereign. They
• LETTERED
  1. Literate; educated; versed in literature. " Are you not lettered" Shak. The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers. Milman.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• INTERCOMMUNICATION
  Mutual communication. Owen.
• REMISSIVE
  Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.
• PERMISSIVE
  1. Permitting; granting leave or liberty. "By his permissive will." Milton. 2. Permitted; tolerated; suffered. Milton.
• IRREMISSIVE
  Not remitting; unforgiving.
• TRANSMISSIVE
  Capable of being transmitted; derived, or handed down, from one to another. Itself a sun, it with transmissive light Enlivens worlds denied to human sight. Prior.
• SEA LETTER
  The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.
• OMISSIVE
  Leaving out; omitting. Bp. Hall. -- O*mis"sive*ly, adv.
• UNDERLETTER
  A tenant or lessee who grants a lease to another.
• BLACK-LETTER
  1. Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book. 2. Given to the study of books in black letter; that is, of old books; out of date. Kemble, a black-letter man! J. Boaden. 3. Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar