epistler

plural epistlers

1. A writer of an epistle.

   their incorporation would have, probably, quite served to justify the Epistler both in his own eyes and in those of his public.

   1875, Matthew Arnold, God and the Bible

2. The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service.

   These be my gospellers, These be my pystyllers, These be my querysters To helpe me to synge, My hawkes to mattens rynge!

   c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 65, lines 120–124