epistoler

[ ih-pis-tl-er ]

noun

1. Also epistolist. a writer of an epistle.
2. the person who reads or chants the epistle in the Eucharistic service.

Word History and Origins

Origin of epistoler¹

1520–30; < Latin epistol ( a ) epistle + -er ¹

Example Sentences

He is to deliver the Sacrament first of all to the Clergy assisting in the service, beginning with the Gospeller and Epistoler, in accordance with the reason assigned in the rubric of 1549 for so doing, viz. that they may be ready to help the chief minister.

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So, in the advertisements published in the seventh year of Elizabeth, we read, "The principal minister shall use a cope with gospeller and epistoler agreeably."

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The 24th Canon directs that "In all cathedral and collegiate churches the Holy Communion shall be administered, . . . the principal minister using a decent cope, and being assisted with the gospeller and epistoler."

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Perhaps there is, at any rate in the earlier letters, something of this unkemptness in Keats as an epistoler.

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There is always a Gospeller and Epistoler in addition to the Celebrant.

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