Obs. [f. L. epistol-a EPISTLE + -IST.] One who writes epistles.
1743. Miss Carter, Lett. (1809), I. 28. I am extremely obliged to you … for your account of the Italian epistolists.
1819. Southey, Lett. (1856), III. 146. Detestable Dapple; Evil Epistolist; False Fellow.
1853. Miall, Bases of Belief, iv. § 10 (1861), 230. These New Testament epistolists.
