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Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy.
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A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.
v. t.
To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
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Of or pertaining to St.Peter; as, the Petrine Epistles.
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Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.
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A letter; an epistle.
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A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.
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An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.
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An epistle.
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Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition; as, a petitionary epistle.
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The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service.
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"Our Lord cometh;" -- an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, "May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes." See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema.
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A psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar.
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A writer of epistles.
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Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle.
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The art or practice of writing epistles.
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A decretal epistle.
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Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law.
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A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament.
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Of or pertaining to the apostle Paul, or his writings; resembling, or conforming to, the writings of Paul; as, the Pauline epistles; Pauline doctrine.
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