a. Obs. [f. as prec. + -AL 1.] = EPISTOLARY.

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1655.  Let. Hartlib, in Ref. Commonw. Bees, 30. A large Epistolical discourse.

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1670.  Lett., in Fox Bourne, Locke (1876), I. v. 253. You cannot be better pleased with our epistolical converse than I am.

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a. 1742.  Bentley, Lett. (1842), I. 11 (R.). I have an Epistolical Dissertation on John Malelas.

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