a. [f. EPISODE + -IC.] Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, an episode; incidental, occasional.
1711. Shaftesb., Charac. (1737), III. 268. The same Episodick Liberty … which we have maintain’d in the preceding Chapters.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XII. note (R.). This episodic narration gives the Poet an opportunity to relate [etc.].
1856. Masson, Ess., Story Year 1770. 257. Such incidents as these, episodic as they were to the two great topics of Wilkes and the Constitution and the growing disaffection of the American colonies.
1879. Geo. Eliot, Theo. Such, vi. 123. His episodic show of regard.
b. Also, of a literary work: Characterized by the frequent introduction of episodes.
1866. Felton, Anc. & Mod. Gr., I. iv. 68. It [the Mahabharata] is more episodic than the other [the Ramayana].
