— pamphletary , adj.
/pam"flit/ , n.
1. a complete publication of generally less than 80 pages stitched or stapled together and usually having a paper cover.
2. a short treatise or essay, generally a controversial tract, on some subject of contemporary interest: a political pamphlet.
[ 1375-1425; late ME pamflet panfletus, pamfletus, syncopated var. of PAMPHILETUS, dim. of ML Pamphilus, title of a 12th-century Latin comedy. See -ET ]