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Feb. 7, 2015
Word of the Day

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\ih-PIS-tl-ahyz\
verb
1. to write a letter.
2. to write a letter to.
Quotes
…there are some who in lieu of letters write homilies; they preach when they should epistolize: there are others that turn them to tedious tractates: this is to make letters degenerate from their true nature.
-- James Howell, James Howell to Sir J.S., July 25, 1625, in The British Letter Writers, 1892
Origin
Epistolize derives from the Latin word epistola meaning "message" or "letter." It entered English in the mid-1600s.
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