ˈpostillate, v. rare.
[f. ppl. stem of med.L. postillāre: see postil v. and -ate3.]
= postil v.
| 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) VIII. 235 Hewe frere of the ordre Precheours..whiche postillate alle the bible [qui totam bibliam postillavit], and compilede grete concordances on the bible. a 1864 C. Knight (Webster), Tracts..which belonged to George III and in a few instances are postillated by his own hand. 1864 D. P. Kidder Homiletics iv. 95 With the..Reformation both the idea and the practice of postillating were superseded by evangelical preaching. |
† b. ‘Formerly, To preach by expounding Scripture, verse by verse, in order’ (Webster 1847).
Hence postiˈllation, the writing of postils.
| 1847 Webster, Postillation, exposition of Scripture in preaching. 1864 Ibid., Postillation, the act of postillating. |