epistoler

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

From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by Saintsbury, George

Sometimes the vestments for the celebrant, the gospeller, and the epistoler, were called "priest, deacon, and subdeacon," instead of chasuble, dalmatic, and tunicle.

From Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See by Worley, George

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."

From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous

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."

From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous