pistle

English

Etymology

From Middle English pistel, an alternative form of epistil. Surface analysis as an aphetic form of epistle.

Noun

pistle (plural pistles)

(obsolete) A written communication; a letter, an epistle.
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts xv:[30], folio clxxvij, verso:
  when they were departed / they cam to Antioche and gaddred the multitude togedder and delivered the piſtle.

Anagrams

pliest, stipel, tiples

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