Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to epistle
Participle: epistled
Gerund: epistling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | epistle |
| you | epistle |
| he;she;it | epistles |
| we | epistle |
| you | epistle |
| they | epistle |
Perfect
| I | have epistled |
| you | have epistled |
| he;she;it | has epistled |
| we | have epistled |
| you | have epistled |
| they | have epistled |
Past
| I | epistled |
| you | epistled |
| he;she;it | epistled |
| we | epistled |
| you | epistled |
| they | epistled |
Pluperfect
| I | had epistled |
| you | had epistled |
| he;she;it | had epistled |
| we | had epistled |
| you | had epistled |
| they | had epistled |
Future
| I | will epistle |
| you | will epistle |
| he;she;it | will epistle |
| we | will epistle |
| you | will epistle |
| they | will epistle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have epistled |
| you | will have epistled |
| he;she;it | will have epistled |
| we | will have epistled |
| you | will have epistled |
| they | will have epistled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | epistle |
| you | epistle |
| he;she;it | epistle |
| we | epistle |
| you | epistle |
| they | epistle |
Perfect
| I | have epistled |
| you | have epistled |
| he;she;it | have epistled |
| we | have epistled |
| you | have epistled |
| they | have epistled |
Imperfect
| I | epistled |
| you | epistled |
| he;she;it | epistled |
| we | epistled |
| you | epistled |
| they | epistled |
Pluperfect
| I | had epistled |
| you | had epistled |
| he;she;it | had epistled |
| we | had epistled |
| you | had epistled |
| they | had epistled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would epistle |
| you | would epistle |
| he;she;it | would epistle |
| we | would epistle |
| you | would epistle |
| they | would epistle |
Perfect
| I | would have epistled |
| you | would have epistled |
| he;she;it | would have epistled |
| we | would have epistled |
| you | would have epistled |
| they | would have epistled |
Imperative
| you | epistle |
| we | Let's epistle |
| you | epistle |
Verbs conjugated like 'epistle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'epistle'
bristle,
enisle,
mistle,
pestle,
pittle,
spirtle,
spittle,
twistle,
whistle,
belittle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *h₁epi
3. The noun is derived from Middle English epistel, epistole, pistel (“letter; literary work in letter form; written legend or story; spoken communication; (Christianity) one of the letters by an apostle in the New Testament; extract from such a letter read as part of the Mass”) [and other forms], and then partly:
4. * from Old English epistol, epistola, pistol (“letter, epistle”), from Latin epistola (“letter, epistle; literary work in letter form”) (whence Late Latin epistola (“one of the letters by an apostle in the New Testament”)), from Ancient Greek ἐπῐστολή (epĭstolḗ, “letter; message”), from ἐπῐστέλλω (epĭstéllō, “to inform by, or to send, a letter or message”) (from ἐπῐ- (epĭ-, prefix meaning ‘on, upon’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi (“at; near; on”)) + στέλλω (stéllō, “to dispatch, send”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to locate; to place, put”))) + -η (-ē, suffix forming action nouns); and
5. * from Anglo-Norman epistle, and Middle French epistle, epistele, epistole (“letter; (Christianity) one of the letters by an apostle in the New Testament; extract from such a letter read as part of the Mass”) (modern French épître), from Latin epistola (see above).
6. The verb is derived from the noun. See: French '
épître'.
Sample Sentences
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His braynes, his time, all hys maintenance and exhibition upon it he hath conſumed, and never intermitted, till ſuch time as he beganne to epiſtle it againſt mee, ſince which I have kept him a work indifferently. [1596, Tho[mas] Nashe, “Dialogus”, in Haue with You to Saffron-Walden. Or, Gabriell Harveys Hunt is Up. […], London: […] John Danter, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Have with You to Saffron-Walden (Miscellaneous Tracts; Temp. Eliz. and Jac. I), [London: s.n., 1870], →OCLC, page 95:]
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And though antient Tragedy uſe no Prologue, yet uſing ſometimes, in caſe of ſelf defence, or explanation, that vvhich Martial calls an Epiſtle; in behalf of this Tragedy coming forth after the antient manner, much different from vvhat among us paſſes for beſt, thus much before-hand may be Epiſtl'd; that Chorus is here introduc'd after the Greek manner, not antient only but modern, and ſtill in uſe among the Italians. [1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]. Of that Sort of Dramatic Poem which is Call’d Tragedy.”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 4:]
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Devinitie (the heaven of all artes) for a while drew his thoughts unto it; but ſhortly after the world, the fleſh, and the divell with-drewe him from that, and needes he would be of a more gentleman-like luſtie cut: whereupon hee fell to morrall epiſtling and poetrie. [1596, Tho[mas] Nashe, “Dialogus”, in Haue with You to Saffron-Walden. Or, Gabriell Harveys Hunt is Up. […], London: […] John Danter, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Have with You to Saffron-Walden (Miscellaneous Tracts; Temp. Eliz. and Jac. I), [London: s.n., 1870], →OCLC, page 66:]