Posted on 09/08/2011 4:25:04 AM PDT by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
e·pis·to·lar·y /[ih-pis-tl-er-ee] adjective
1. contained in or carried on by letters: an epistolary friendship.
2. of, pertaining to, or consisting of letters.
Example sentence:
First came his romantic epistolary novel, La Nouvelle Heloise, ou Lettres de deux amans, also entitled Julie, which he had begun in 1757.
--- Dave Edmonds, John Eidinow, Rousseau's Dog, 2006
Etymology:
1650–60; Latin epistolāris of, belonging to a letter
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
Rise and shine!
A+ for you. She's such a charmer!
is that a litotes? ROR!
Yes it is!
Would a collection of e-mails be considered an e-pistolary?
Well-armed citizens maintain a pistolary relationship with potential no-gooders....
I suppose Anthony Weiner’s twitter relationships could have been categorized as epistolary. Or in his case, e-pizzle-ary.
i miss the weiner.
Well, you seemed sad after the hockey story. I thought I would try to cheer you up with our favorite weeney.
thanks, we need more salacious scandals. i live for them! i was sad all day about the hockey plane crash, yesterday. xsboy is trying out for the SU hockey team, he said last night at tryouts he overheard the team capt say to the coach, we aren’t flying to any games this year are we? and the coach said no, that they didn’t have to, all were close enough to go by bus. All of hockeydom has been affected by this.
It is not often you read a blog that well written - very touching
surpisingly apt HW from you. How’d your candidate do in the debate last night? oh that’s right, she’s not IN the race... [you know i love you, i just can’t resist riding you over your palinlust ;)]
I did see that her case is in appeal. I honestly have no idea whether she is guilty or not. I think that the evidence got so screwed up that nobody will ever know except for Amanda herself.
:P
I found the debate surprising good across the board, even despite it being sponsored by pMSNBC and the Politico.
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