epistle 的定义
- a letter, especially a formal or didactic one; written communication.
- one of the apostolic letters in the New Testament.
- an extract, usually from one of the Epistles of the New Testament, forming part of the Eucharistic service in certain churches.
epistle 近义词
letter
更多epistle例句
- All these actors forced questions onto the agenda of the British and the colonists, but few of them produced the kind of epistles that this book examines.
- On Halloween Ed proved he has not been forgotten when he published a now-famous epistle in response to the Jian Ghomeshi scandal.
- There was plenty more like this--every epistle dumber than the previous--but you get the general idea.
- Ripperda accompanied this unexpected refusal, with a laboured epistle to his imperial friend.
- Enclosed within this long epistle was a brief note from Mariamne.
- Without a word the sailor took the epistle, read it slowly, while the boy watched him keenly, then thrust it under his pillow.
- These last three verses are a kind of preface to the following chapter, which is written in the style of an epistle from the king.
- Horace combats this prejudice with equal force and address in his fine epistle to Augustus.