POSTIL Definition & Meaning

postil

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noun

a commentary or marginal note, as in a Bible
a homily or collection of homilies

verb

obsolete.
to annotate (a biblical passage)

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Origin of postil¹

C15 ( postille ): from Old French postille from Medieval Latin postilla, perhaps from post illa ( verba textus ), after these words in the text, often the opening phrase of such an annotation

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Curator Ray Larson advises that yellow-flowering Mahonia ‘Arthur Menzies’, vanilla-scented sarcococca and the highly fragrant Daphne bholua ‘Jacqueline Postil’ should be blooming by now.

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To protect the outdoor sculptures, they were coated with a material making them resistant to graffiti, scratches and other vandalism, says Deanna Postil Krawczyk of DPA Fine Art Consulting, which connected Yellin and Kilroy.

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Postil′la, a sermon or homily explanatory of the gospel in the mass: any sermon.—v.t. and v.i.

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By that time I will translate the Postil and New Testament into the people's language.

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The first favour which he obtained for me was, that I was granted another apartment on July 16, 1671, and Bishop D. Jesper’s postil.

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