epistil
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Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
epistil (plural epistils)
- An epistle.
- 15th c., “Alia eorundem [Shepherds' Play II]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 119, lines 100–108:
- ffor, as euer red I pystyll / I haue oone [wife] to my fere, / As sharp as a thystyll / as rugh as a brere; / She is browyd lyke a brystyll / with a sowre loten chere / had She oones Wett Hyr Whystyle / She couth Syng full clere / Her pater noster. / She is as greatt as a whall, / She has a galon of gall: / By hym that dyed for vs all, / I wald I had ryn to I had lost hir.
- For, as ever I read scripture, I have a wife to be afraid of: She's as sharp as a thistle and a rough as a brier; she is broad like a bristle, with a sour, hidden cheerefulness, once she wets her whistle she can sing her Pater noster quite clearely. She is a great as a whale, she has a gallon of gall. By Him that died for us all, I wish I had run till I had lost her.
- A story or legend.
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
“epistel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 7 June 2023.
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French épistyle.
Noun[edit]
epistil n (plural epistiluri)
Declension[edit]
Declension of epistil
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) epistil | epistilul | (niște) epistiluri | epistilurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) epistil | epistilului | (unor) epistiluri | epistilurilor |
vocative | epistilule | epistilurilor |