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Episodic

adjective

Of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes.

Occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals. Synonym: occasional. "Occasional headaches"

Limited in duration to a single episode.

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"Episodic" Quotes from Famous Books

... years, the emaciation, even the rouge and the careless efforts at concealing gray hairs with badly-put-on dye. All this, perhaps, in time. But, well or ill, fate had determined, long before, that this, her one true friendship, was to be but episodic. It was the prologue to a drama undreamed of as yet; the last act of which was to take place many years after the apparent end, now ...

— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter

... them, and so forth. This defence is enough, but it is easy to amplify and reintrench it. It is not by any means the fact that the Picaresque novel of adventure is the only or the chief form of fiction which prescribes or admits these episodic excursions. All the classical epics have them; many eastern and other stories present them; they are common, if not invariable, in the abundant mediaeval literature of prose and verse romance; they are not unknown by any means in the modern novel; and you will very rarely hear ...

— Joseph Andrews Vol. 1 • Henry Fielding

... temperament, find complete happiness in the publication of a successful novel and in devotion to her child. I feel that on a nature like that of Rachel Cohen even Royalties and Press notices would eventually pall. And in pausing I may remark that the beast Glatisant cuts a very episodic and unsatisfactory figure in the Morte D'Arthur. Pursued for a short while by Sir Palamides in his Paynim days, it scarcely comes into the cognisance of KING ARTHUR'S Court and the Table Round. And I fancy that the circulating ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 • Various

... overwrought nerves. But it is more than that. All religions grew out of that most human mood. And whenever one is deeply moved, he feels it. For even the most matter-of-fact person of us all has now and then a suspicion that this life is merely episodic—that curtain after curtain of darkness is to be pierced, world after world of consciousness and light ...

— The River and I • John G. Neihardt

... 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 ...

— The Three Additions to Daniel, A Study • William Heaford Daubney

Words linked to "Episodic" : temporary, divided, impermanent, unpredictable, episodic memory