postillate

English

Etymology

From postil +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Verb

postillate (third-person singular simple present postillates, present participle postillating, simple past and past participle postillated)

1. To write (postils or similar); to comment.

   Synonym: postil

   • 1836, Charles Macfarlane, The Book of Table Talk:

     the collection of newspapers and tracts of the period, which belonged to George III , and in a few instances are postillated by his own hand

2. To preach by expounding Scripture verse by verse, in regular order.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “postillate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

postillate

1. inflection of postillare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

postillate f pl

1. feminine plural of postillato

Anagrams

• spiattello, spiattellò