a. [ad. Gr. ἐπιστολογραφικ-ός, f. ἐπιστολή (see EPISTLE + γράφ-ειν to write.] Used in the writing of letters. Applied esp. to the form of the ancient Egyptian character so employed: called also DEMOTIC and ENCHORIAL. (The Gr. word is thus applied by Clement of Alexandria and Porphyry.)
1699. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, I. I. xi. 64. The method of al Egyptian Leters, which is called Epistolographic.
1862. H. Spencer, First Princ. (1870), 349. The hieratic and the epistolographic or enchorial.
So Epistolographer, Epistolographist, a writer of letters. Epistolography, letter-writing.
1824. Dibdin, Libr. Comp., 579. Marcus Tullius Cicero, at once an orator, a philosopher and epistolographer.
1822. New Monthly Mag., VI. 20. Your kinsman and epistolographist, Numenius.
1888. M. Aragnos, in Amer. Annals of Deaf, April, 102. Epistolography amounts almost to a passion with Helen.
