单词 | postillate |
释义 | postillatev. Now rare. 1. transitive. To make notes or comments on; = postil v. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > write commentary on [verb (transitive)] > annotate > with marginal notes postila1464 postillate?a1475 margin1595 marginate1609 margent1610 apostil1637 marginala1641 postillize1691 admarginatea1834 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1882) VIII. 235 Hewe frere of the ordre Precheours..which postillate [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. expownede; L. postillavit] alle the bible and compilede grete concordances. 1841 G. L. Craik & C. MacFarlane Pict. Hist. Eng. III. vii. i. 47/2 He..began reading—and, with so critical an eye, that within an hour he detected and postillated a long list of what he called damnable heresies. a1864 C. Knight in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) Tracts..which belonged to George III and in a few instances are postillated by his own hand. 2011 R. S. Westman Copernican Question vi. 180 [Her] exhaustive and exemplary study of the notes shows that Gemma marked, underlined, or postillated almost all aspects of the text. 2. intransitive. To preach from postils, or in the style of a postil (postil n. 2). historical. ΚΠ 1828 R. Vaughan Life & Opinions John de Wycliffe II. i. 20 To postillate, was to commence with reading a portion of scripture, and then taking its parts, in the order of the writer, to offer such remarks upon them, as were fitted to explain their meaning. 1841 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. II. (at cited word) Postillate, formerly, to preach by expounding scripture, verse by verse, in regular order. 1982 Franciscan Stud. 40 369 He..disapproved of ‘adulteration’ of the plain sense of the Gospels. Now his two bêtes noires had come together. To gloss or postillate could mean to adulterate. 1991 N. Watson Richard Rolle & Invention of Authority iv. viii. 197 Postillating his prophetic way through expositions of favourite verses of David's Psalms and Solomon's Song. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.?a1475 |
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