a. Obs. [a. Gr. ἐπιστολικ-ός, f. ἐπιστολή: see EPISTLE.] a. = EPISTOLOGRAPHIC. b. = EPISTOLARY.
1741. Warburton, Div. Legat., II. 97, Three sorts of letters, the Epistolic, the Hieroglyphic, and the Symbolic.
1760. Antiq., in Ann. Reg., 156/1. The epistolic [writing], composed of alphabetic characters.
1777. Johnson, Lett. Mrs. Thrale, 27 Oct. To make a letter … without news, and without a secret, is doubtless, the great epistolick art.
