figurative. Consisting of or carried on by means of pamphlets, documents, letters to periodicals, etc.; literary, written.

= epistolary, adj.

Chiefly literary. Of or relating to letters or letter-writing.

= epistolary, adj. (in various senses).

Of or relating to letters or epistles; epistolary. Obsolete.

That is communicated or conducted by correspondence by letter; epistolary. Obsolete.

Of, relating to, or used in letter-writing; epistolary. Also: spec. = epistolographic, adj.

= epistolary, adj. (in various senses).