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Episodic   /ˌɛpəsˈɑdɪk/   Listen
adjective
Episodical, Episodic  adj.  Of or pertaining to an episode; adventitious. "Such a figure as Jacob Brattle, purely episodical though it be, is an excellent English portrait."






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"Episodic" Quotes from Famous Books



... had begun to write and in 1919 he published the stories that comprise Winesburg, Ohio, stories that form, in sum, a sort of loosely-strung episodic novel. The book was an immediate critical success, and soon Anderson was being ranked as a significant literary figure. In 1921 the distinguished literary magazine The Dial awarded him its first annual ...
— Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson

... have been drafted, and five TIRES AU CLAIR. I think it pretty good; there's a blooming maiden that costs anxiety - she is as virginal as billy; but David seems there and alive, and the Lord Advocate is good, and so I think is an episodic appearance of the Master of Lovat. In Chapter XVII. I shall get David abroad - Alan went already in Chapter XII. The book should be about the length of KIDNAPPED; this early part of it, about D.'s evidence ...
— Vailima Letters • Robert Louis Stevenson

... is often referred to or quoted by early Fathers to a remarkable extent, considering the brevity of the piece and its merely episodic character in the main narrative. ...
— The Three Additions to Daniel, A Study • William Heaford Daubney



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