English-Thai Dictionary

epistle

N จดหมาย ที่ เป็นทางการ (มัก มี เนื้อความ เกี่ยวกับ การ สอนสั่ง (คำ ทางการ  letter script jod-mai-ti-pen-tang-kan

 

epistler

N ผู้ เขียนจดหมาย หรือ สาร 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EPISTLE

n.epis'l. [L. epistola; Gr. to send to; to send. ] A writing, directed or sent, communicating intelligence to a distant person; a letter; a letter missive. It is rarely used in familiar conversation or writings, but chiefly in solemn or formal transactions. It is used particularly in speaking of the letters of the Apostles, as the epistles of Paul; and of other letters written by the ancients, as the epistles of Pliny or of Cicero.

 

EPISTLER

n.A writer of epistles. [Little used. ] 1. Formerly, one who attended the communion table and read the epistles.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EPISTLE

E *pis "tle, n. Etym: [OE. epistle, epistel, AS. epistol, pistol, L.epistola, fr. Gr. epistle, epistre, F. épître. See Stall. ]

 

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.

 

2. (Eccl.)

 

Defn: 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.

 

EPISTLE

EPISTLE E *pis "tle, v. t.

 

Defn: To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing. [Obs. ] Milton.

 

EPISTLER

EPISTLER E *pis "tler, n.

 

1. A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament. M. Arnold.

 

2. (Eccl.)

 

Defn: The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

epistle

e pis tle |iˈpisəl əˈpɪsəl | ▶noun formal a letter. • a poem or other literary work in the form of a letter or series of letters. • (also Epistle ) a book of the New Testament in the form of a letter from an Apostle: St. Paul's epistle to the Romans. • an extract from an Epistle (or another New Testament book not a Gospel ) that is read in a church service. ORIGIN Old English, via Latin from Greek epistolē, from epistellein ‘send news, ’ from epi ‘upon, in addition ’ + stellein ‘send. ’ The word was reintroduced in Middle English from Old French.

 

Oxford Dictionary

epistle

epistle |ɪˈpɪs (ə )l | ▶noun formal or humorous a letter. • a poem or other literary work in the form of a letter or series of letters. • ( Epistle ) a book of the New Testament in the form of a letter from an Apostle: St Paul's Epistle to the Romans. • an extract from an Epistle (or another New Testament book not a Gospel ) that is read in a church service. ORIGIN Old English, via Latin from Greek epistolē, from epistellein ‘send news ’, from epi ‘upon, in addition ’ + stellein ‘send ’. The word was reintroduced in Middle English from Old French.

 

Epistle to the Colossians,

Epistle to the Colossians, Epistle to the Ephesians, etc. see Colossians, Epistle to the; Ephesians, Epistle to the, etc.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

epistle

epistle noun formal the historical backdrop of St. Paul's epistles: letter, missive, communication, dispatch, note, line; news, correspondence.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

epistle

epistle noun formal letter, missive, communication, written message, written communication, dispatch, report, bulletin, note, line; correspondence, news, information, intelligence, word; Roman Catholic Church encyclical.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

epistle

e pis tle /ɪpɪ́s (ə )l /名詞 C 1 ｟かたく ｠書簡 (!特に形式ばった儀礼的なものや教訓的内容のもの; 気取って一般の 「手紙 」(letter )の意味にも用いる ) ; 書簡体の文学作品 .2 〖E- 〗〘キリスト教 〙(新約聖書中の )使徒書簡 ; (ミサ聖祭 聖餐 （せいさん ）式などで朗読する )使徒書簡の抜粋 ▸ the Epistle to the Romans (使徒Paulがローマの信徒に書き送った )ローマ人への手紙, ロマ書 ～́ s ì de 〘プロテスタント 〙使徒書側 ; 〘カトリック 〙書簡側 〘教会内で使徒書 書簡を読む祭壇南 [右 ]側; ↔gospel side 〙.