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Definition of Epistoler
1. n. One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler.
Definition of Epistoler
1. Noun. One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Epistoler
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Epistoler
1. One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epistoler
Literary usage of Epistoler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"Hence the epistoler was called by the later Greeks aposto- larius. Describing the
ceremonies of Easter Ere at Constantinople, ..."
2. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society (1890)
"And seeing that sometimes a man may get confused as to the order of the commandments,
it would be a reasonable precaution if the epistoler were to hold a ..."
3. The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian by James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell (1867)
"The epistoler having gone to the credence, and taken therefrom the metal plate
with the ... The epistoler meanwhile wipes the bowl of the chalice with the ..."
4. The Parson's Handbook: Containing Practical Directions Both for Parsons and by Percy Dearmer (1902)
"... for the epistoler or Sub-deacon, only differs from the dalmatic in that it
has a tendency to be somewhat less ornamental: there is no precise difference ..."
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