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postil [ˈpɒstɪl]
n
1. (Christian Religious Writings / Bible) a commentary or marginal note, as in a Bible
2. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a homily or collection of homilies
vb -tils, -tiling, -tiled, -tils -tilling, -tilled
Obsolete to annotate (a biblical passage)
[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]
Postil collection of homilies, 1566.
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31) La nipote Angioletta non viene menzionata nel testamento del 1 maggio 1645 ma in una postilla successiva, in data 26 gennaio 1648.
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It is true that in the very early days of Portuguese printing Rodrigo Alvares brought out the gospels and the epistles, in a version based on William of Paris's Postilla super epistolas et evangelia (1497), while in Lisbon in 1505 Valentim Fernandes, at the request of the dowager Queen Leanor, issued the Acts of the Apostles in the vernacular.
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