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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Episodic \Ep'i*so"dic\, Episodical \Ep'i*so"dic*al\, adjective [Cf. F. ['e]pisodique. See {Episode}.] Of or pertaining to an episode; adventitious. -- {Ep'i*so"dic*al*ly}, adverb
Such a figure as Jacob Brattle, purely episodical though it be, is an excellent English portrait. --H. James. ||
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
episodic
adjective
1: of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes; "the book is episodic and the incidents don't always hang together"
2: occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals; "episodic in his affections"; "occasional headaches" [syn: {occasional}]
3: limited in duration to a single episode; "an account concerned primarily with episodic events such as the succession of rulers"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "episodic": aimless, broken, broken off, by the way, chopped-off, choppy, decousu, desultory, deviative, digressive, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, discursive, disjunctive, excursive, fitful, herky-jerky, incoherent, intercalary, interjectional, intermittent, interpolative, interrupted, irregular, jagged, jerky, loose, maundering, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonuniform, parenthetic, parenthetical, patchy, rambling, roving, scrappy, snatchy, spasmodic, spotty, suspended, unconnected, unjoined, unsuccessive, wandering
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