postillate

postillate

English

Etymology

postil +‎ -ate

Verb

postillate (third-person singular simple present postillates, present participle postillating, simple past and past participle postillated)

1. To write postils; to comment.
   • C. Knight

     tracts […] postillated by his own hand

2. To preach by expounding Scripture verse by verse, in regular order.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for postillate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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Italian

Verb

postillate

1. second-person plural present indicative of postillare
2. second-person plural imperative of postillare
3. feminine plural of postillato

Anagrams

• spiattello, spiattellò