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POSTIL, or APOSTIL

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 197 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POSTIL, or See also:APOSTIL , properly a See also:gloss on a scriptural See also:text, particularly on a See also:gospel text, hence any explanatory See also:note on other writings. The word is also applied to a See also:general commentary, and also to. a See also:homily or discourse on the gospel or See also:epistle appointed for the See also:day. The word in See also:Medieval Latin was postilla, and this has been taken to represent See also:post See also:ill¢ sc. verba textus, i.e. " after these words of the text " (see Du Cange, Glossarium, s.v. postillae), but the See also:form " apostil " may point to the Latin appositum, placed near or next to.

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