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Episodic
CIDE DICTIONARY
Episodic, a. [Cf. F. épisodique. See Episode.].
Of or pertaining to an episode; adventitious. [1913 Webster]
"Such a figure as Jacob Brattle, purely episodical though it be, is an excellent English portrait." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Episodic, adj. (also episodical)
1 in the nature of an episode.
2 sporadic; occurring at irregular intervals.
1 in the nature of an episode.
2 sporadic; occurring at irregular intervals.
Derivative
episodically adv.
THESAURUS
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, wanderingROGET THESAURUS
Episodic
Irrelation
N irrelation, dissociation, misrelation, inapplicability, inconnection, multifariousness, disconnection, inconsequence, independence, incommensurability, irreconcilableness, heterogeneity, unconformity, irrelevancy, impertinence, nihil ad rem, intrusion, non-pertinence, irrelative, irrespective, unrelated, arbitrary, independent, unallied, unconnected, disconnected, adrift, isolated, insular, extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic, not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous, unconformable, irrelevant, inapplicable, not pertinent, not to the, purpose, impertinent, inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes, aside from the purpose, away from the purpose, foreign to the purpose, beside the purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, beside the point, misplaced, traveling out of the record, remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there, quite another thing, detached, segregate, disquiparant, multifarious, discordant, incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic, parenthetically, by the way, by the by, en passant, incidentally, irrespectively, without reference to, without regard to, in the abstract, a se.Interposition
N interposition, interjacence, intercurrence, intervenience, interlocation, interdigitation, interjection, interpolation, interlineation, interspersion, intercalation, interpenetration, permeation, infiltration, intervention, interference, intrusion, obtrusion, insinuation, insertion, dovetailing, embolism, intermediary, intermedium, go between, bodkin, intruder, interloper, parenthesis, episode, flyleaf, partition, septum, diaphragm, midriff, dissepiment, party wall, panel, room divider, halfway house, interjacent, intercurrent, intervenient, intervening, intermediate, intermediary, intercalary, interstitial, embolismal, parenthetical, episodic, mediterranean, intrusive, embosomed, merged, between, betwixt, twixt, among, amongst, amid, amidst, mid, midst, in the thick of, betwixt and between, sandwich-wise, parenthetically, obiter dictum.For further exploring for "Episodic" in Webster Dictionary Online