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n. A letter, especially a formal one. See Synonyms at letter.

n. A literary composition in the form of a letter.

n. Bible One of the letters included as a book in the New Testament.

n. Bible An excerpt from one of these letters, read as part of a religious service.

n. A letter, or a literary composition in the form of a letter.

n. One of the letters included as a book of the New Testament.

v. To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.

n. A writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; -- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters.

n. One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles.

v. To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.

n. A written communication directed or sent to a person at a distance; a letter; a letter missive: used particularly in dignified discourse or in speaking of ancient writings: as, the epistles of Paul, of Pliny, or of Cicero.

n. [capitalized] In liturgics, one of the eucharistic lessons, taken, with some exceptions, from an epistolary book of the New Testament and read before the gospel.

n. Any kind of harangue or discourse; a communication.

To write as a letter; communicate by writing or by an epistle.

n. a book of the New Testament written in the form of a letter from an Apostle

n. a specially long, formal letter

"Philemon. (1 page) The epistle is the most important early Christian writing dealing with forgiveness."

letter    missive   

ecclesiastical epistles    pastoral epistles    epistle side of the altar    canonical epistles   

letter    write    lette   

antimissile    bristle    dismissal    fissel    fissile    gristle    missal    missel    missile    thistle   

preface    telegram    memoir    correspondence    treatise    dispatch    discourse    sonnet    poem    paragraph