noun. A letter, especially a formal one. synonym: letter.

noun. A literary composition in the form of a letter.

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noun. One of the letters included as a book in the New Testament.

noun. An excerpt from one of these letters, read as part of a religious service.

noun. A written communication directed or sent to a person at a distance; a letter; a letter missive: used particularly in dignified discourse or in speaking of ancient writings: as, the epistles of Paul, of Pliny, or of Cicero.

noun. [capitalized] In liturgics, one of the eucharistic lessons, taken, with some exceptions, from an epistolary book of the New Testament and read before the gospel.

noun. Any kind of harangue or discourse; a communication.

To write as a letter; communicate by writing or by an epistle.

transitive verb. To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.

noun. A writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; -- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters.

noun. One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles.

noun. the right side of an altar or church to a person looking from the nave toward the chancel.

noun. A letter, or a literary composition in the form of a letter.

noun. One of the letters included as a book of the New Testament.

verb. To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.

noun. a book of the New Testament written in the form of a letter from an Apostle

noun. a specially long, formal letter

"Philemon. (1 page) The epistle is the most important early Christian writing dealing with forgiveness."

canonical epistles  ecclesiastical epistles  epistle side of the altar  pastoral epistles  

letter  missive  

antimissile  bristle  dismissal  fissel  fissile  

autobiography  chronicle  correspondence  dialogue  discourse  

lette  letter  write