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† ˈpostiller Obs.
Also 6 postilar, 7 postillar, -iler, -eller.
[f. postil v. + -er1. Cf. OF. postilleur (1478 in Godef.).]
One who makes or writes a ‘postil’ or ‘postils’; a commentator, annotator, expositor.
1526Pilgr. Pref. (W. de W. 1531) 138 Yet, after our postilars, he came agayne at y⊇ passyon of our sayd lord. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 7 Not drawne out of the poysoned puddles of Popish Friers, or postillars. 1621S. Ward Life of Faith 99 Subtilties of School-men, sentences and conceits of Postilers. 1662Hibbert Body Div. i. 216 Shepherds (as the Roman postellers observe) must have three things, 1. scrip. 2. staffe. 3. whistle.
¶ Error for pistoler, pistler.
1891St. J. Tyrwhitt in Colleges of Oxford 307 A gospeller and a postiller (Bible-clerk), eight singing clerks. |