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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

... the Adirondacks was episodic; and as I have forsworn episodes, I turn away from them with this mild slander, and strike again our Maine track. With lips impurpled by the earliest huckleberries, we came out again upon Champlain. We crossed that water-logged valley in a steamboat, ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 • Various

... years short of the age at which the clear spirit bids good-bye to the last infirmity of noble mind, and takes to house-hunting and investments, he had reached the period in a young man's life when episodic periods, with a hopeful birth and a disappointing death, have begun to accumulate, and to bear a fruit of generalities; his glance sometimes seeming to state, 'I have already thought out the issue of such conditions as these we are experiencing.' At other times he ...

— Desperate Remedies • Thomas Hardy

... record, and does often record, in those queer episodic dips into his scrap-book, the outrageous stories of a thousand freaks of nature. He loves these little impish tricks of the great careless gods. He loves the mad, wicked, astounding, abnormal things that are permitted to happen as the world moves ...

— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys

... French models, that the public of the day expected 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 ...

— Joseph Andrews Vol. 1 • Henry Fielding

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