Episode

(Ger. Zwisch’ensats; Fr. Gisode; It.divert i men’to.) An in termed i- © late or incidental section; a digre ion from and interpolation ' between the repetitions or developments of the principal theme or themes of a composition; specifically, in the fugue, a pa age of the above character ordinarily formed of motives taken from the subject or countersubject. Epistle side (of the altar). That on the priest's left, when he is facing the congregation; the south side; opp. to the gospel or north side.