epistolary

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or relating to letters, or the writing of letters.
• Carried on by written correspondence.
• In the manner of written correspondence.

Noun

• A Christian liturgical book containing set readings for church services from the New Testament Epistles.

Origin

• 1650s, from French épistolaire, from Latin *epistolarium, from epistola (English epistle) + -arium, from Ancient Greek ἐπιστολή from ἐπιστέλλω from ἐπί + στέλλω.