Usually means: Marginal note explaining biblical text.
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  1. postil: Merriam-Webster
  2. postil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. postil: Collins English Dictionary
  4. postil: Wordnik
  5. postil: Wiktionary
  6. Postil, postil: Dictionary.com
  7. Postil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Postil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. postil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Postil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. postil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. postil: FreeDictionary.org
  13. postil: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. postil: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postil: Legal dictionary

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (postil)

noun:  (archaic) A Bible commentary written in its margins.
noun:  A marginal note.
noun:  A short homily or commentary on a passage of Scripture.
noun:  A collection of homilies.
verb:  (transitive) To write marginal or explanatory notes on; to gloss.
verb:  (intransitive) To write postils, or marginal notes; to comment; to postillate.

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