a. Obs. [f. as prec. + -AL 1.] = EPISTOLARY.
1655. Let. Hartlib, in Ref. Commonw. Bees, 30. A large Epistolical discourse.
1670. Lett., in Fox Bourne, Locke (1876), I. v. 253. You cannot be better pleased with our epistolical converse than I am.
a. 1742. Bentley, Lett. (1842), I. 11 (R.). I have an Epistolical Dissertation on John Malelas.