Epistle
Epistle , noun
[Old English epistle, epistel, Anglo-Saxon epistol, pistol, Latin epistola, from Greek {not transcribed} anything sent by a messenger, message, letter, from {not transcribed} to send to, tell by letter or message; 'epi` upon, to + {not transcribed} to dispatch, send; compare Old French epistle, epistre, French 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.
2.
(Ecclesiastical) One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles.
One sees the pulpit on the epistle side.
Collocations (1)
Epistle side , the right side of an altar or church to a person looking from the nave toward the chancel.
Epistle , transitive verb
To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing. [Obsolete] — Milton