Epistle vs False - What's the difference?
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A letter, or a literary composition in the form of a letter.
* 1748 — (David Hume), , Section III, § 5.
(Christianity) One of the letters included as a book of the New Testament.
* 1956 — Werner Keller (translated by William Neil), The Bible as History , revised English edition, Chapter 41, page 358
(obsolete) To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun epistle
is a letter, or a literary composition in the form of a letter.As a verb epistle
is (obsolete) to write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.epistle
English
(wikipedia epistle)Noun
(en noun)- he may be hurried from this plan by the vehemence of thought, as in an ode, or drop it carlessly, as in an epistle or essay
- Even last century scholars had begun to search for the cities in Asia Minor whose names have become so familiar to the Chistian world through the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles of St. Paul.
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(epistl)- (Milton)
false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}