单词 | postillary |
释义 | † postillaryadj. Obsolete. Of the nature of a postil; added as a comment or note; (also) that teaches by postils. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [adjective] > of nature of marginal note postillary1610 1610 D. Price Def. of Truth i. ii. 31 Postillary friers. 1653 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. New Test. (advt.) Purposely abstaining from..all postillary observations. 1713 J. Edwards Theologia Reformata I. iii. 651 But when the Reformation got farther Footing, these Postillary Discourses were found to be flat and insipid, and not serviceable to stir up People to their Duty. 1729 T. Stackhouse Compl. Body Divinity iv. v. 750 The Manner of Preaching..continued in the Church until, in the Time of Charles the Great, about the Middle of the ninth Century, Postillary Discourses..or Comments upon the Gospells and Epistles, came in their room. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < adj.1610 |
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