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▪ I. postscript, n.|ˈpəʊstskrɪpt|
Also in L. form post scriptum.
[ad. L. postscript-um, neut. pa. pple. of postscrībĕre (see prec.) used as n. Cf. obs. F. postscript (16–18th c.), mod.F., Du., Ger., etc., postscriptum, It. poscritto.]
a. A paragraph written at the end of a letter, after the signature, containing an afterthought or additional matter.
1551Acts Privy Council III. 409 A lettre to the Lorde Ogle..with a post script to send the sayd Irisheman by Mr. Dudley and Mr. Shelley. 1625Bacon Ess., Cunning (Arb.) 93, I knew one, that when he wrote a Letter, he would put that which was most Materiall, in the Post-script, as if it had been a By-matter. 1655Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 191 This burthening you with Postscripts is, I confess, a rude way of writeing. 1711Steele Spect. No. 79 ⁋5 A Woman seldom writes her Mind but in her Postscript. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life x. cxxvi, It's like a Lady's Postscript, which, they tell you, contains the essence of the letter. 1873Black Pr. Thule xxii, At the end of the letter there was a brief postscript.
b. A paragraph written or printed at the end of any composition, containing some appended matter.
1638Penit. Conf. xii. (1657) 317 Towards the end whereof is an Appendix or Post-script. 1707Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 200 The parliament of Ireland have burnt by the common hangman the postscript to Mr. Higgins sermon. 1769Junius Lett. xx. (1772) I. 142 The gentleman, who has published an answer to Sir William Meredith's pamphlet, having honoured me with a postscript of six quarto pages. 1890Masson De Quincey's Wks. IV. 321 Postscript [to Oliver Goldsmith]. Ibid. note, What is here printed as a ‘postscript’ appeared as a portion of De Quincey's ‘Preface’ to Vol. V. of his Collected Writings.
c. A thing appended; an appendage. Also, an additional or conclusory remark or action, an afterthought, a sequel.
1870Thornbury Tour Eng. I. i. 5 Brentford [was] always a mere ecclesiastical postscript to Hanwell or Ealing. 1926C. Hamilton in Hutchinson's Best Story Mag. Nov. 16/1 ‘We are to keep each other company until my son returns,’ she added. And as a postscript, ‘It is his wish.’ 1932E. V. Lucas Reading, Writing & Remembering ix. 153 The Gentlest Art led to an amusing postscript. A firm of drapers..sent me..a specimen of epistolary gentleness of the highest order. 1949M. Mead Male & Female xvi. 340 Some couples attempt a last child, for which there are..slang phrases—‘little postscript’, ‘little frost blossom’. 1963A. Ross Australia 63 iii. 76 Benaud, who fancies these kind of brief postscripts against weary bowlers, drove Statham and hooked Coldwell. 1965Listener 23 Sept. 463/3 Would he have expanded during his sixty-odd extra years, or remained as much a postscript from the 'nineties as Max?
d. A short talk broadcast after a B.B.C. radio news bulletin.
They began in 1940 and were discontinued in 1944.
1940Radio Times 18 Oct. 3/1 Priestley fans in this country..hear him only once a week, when he gives his Sunday-night postscript. 1943New Statesman 20 Nov. 328 A sensible postscript by Barbara Ward. 1961E. Waugh Unconditional Surrender i. iii. 48 The BBC don't want to renew ‘The Voice of Trimmer’ Sunday evening postscripts. 1972P. Black Biggest Aspidistra ii. i. 95 The Postscripts began in March [1940], following the Nine O'clock News on the Home Service as a counter-attraction to Haw-Haw.
▪ II. † postˈscript, ppl. a. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. postscript-us, pa. pple. of postscrībĕre: see postscribe.]
Written after or subsequently.
1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) A ij, That were..to extinguish the light of all Histories.., the greatest part whereof were Postscript an age at least to the things recorded.
▪ III. ˈpostscript, v. rare.
[f. postscript n.]
trans. To put a postscript to, to furnish with a postscript. Also, to furnish as a postscript. So ˈpostscripted a., ‘having a postscript’ (Worcester 1846 citing J. Q. Adams).
1894A. Dobson 18th Cent. Vignettes Ser. ii. ii. 27 Defoe prefaced and postscripted this modest effort. 1970D. Marlowe Echoes of Celandine vii. 127 He remembered writing a letter to her... Suddenly one realizes, he had postscripted, that there is a sadness. |