Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament.

M. Arnold.

(Eccl.)

The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service.

Noun.

A writer of epistles. [Little used.]

Formerly, one who attended the communion table and read the epistles.

epistler ‎(plural epistlers)

A writer of an epistle.
(Can we find and add a quotation of M. Arnold to this entry?)
The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service.