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epistle

/ih-pis-uhl/US // ɪˈpɪs əl //UK // (ɪˈpɪsəl) //

书信,信件,信札,函件

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.