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epistler en · NOUN

Etymology

From epistle + -er.

Meanings

1. A writer of an epistle.
   • their incorporation would have, probably, quite served to justify the Epistler both in his own eyes and in those of his public. 1875, Matthew Arnold, God and the Bible:
2. The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service.
   • These be my gospellers, These be my pystyllers, These be my querysters To helpe me to synge, My hawkes to mattens rynge! c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 65, lines 120–124:

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