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Definition: POSTIL |
POSTILIntransitive verb1. To write postils, or marginal notes; to comment; to postillate. Noun1. A short homily or commentary on a passage of Scripture; as, the first postils were composed by order of Charlemagne. 2. Originally, an explanatory note in the margin of the Bible, so called because written after the text; hence, a marginal note; a comment. Transitive verb1. To write marginal or explanatory notes on; to gloss. |
Crosswords: POSTIL |
| English words defined with "POSTIL": Postiled, Postiling, Postillate, Postilled, Postilling. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
postil | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "POSTIL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Italian | postilla (marginal note, note). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ostilpay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "POSTIL": postilion, postilions, postillion, postillions. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "POSTIL": apostil. (additional references) | |
Words containing "POSTIL": apostils. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pilots, pistol, spoilt. | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: pilot, plots, polis, posit, slipt, spilt, split, spoil, toils, topis. | |
-2 letters: lips, lisp, list, lits, lops, lost, loti, lots, oils, opts, piso, pits, plot, pois, pols, post, pots, silo, silt, slip, slit, slop, slot, soil, soli, spit, spot, stop, tils, tips, toil, topi, tops. | |
-3 letters: its, lip, lis, lit, lop, lot, oil, ops. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-o-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: apostil, piolets, pistole, pistols, pollist, poloist, pontils, slipout, spotlit, topsail, topsoil. | |
+2 letters: apostils, capitols, coalpits, colpitis, copilots, diplonts, exploits, galipots, helistop, hilltops, hoplites, hospital, isopleth, loopiest, loppiest, lopstick, milepost, petioles, pilosity, pinitols, pisolite, pistoled, pistoles, plotties, poitrels, polemist, politest, politics, polities, pollists, poloists, populist, potboils, potlines, psilotic, shoplift, slipknot, slipouts, spoliate, sportily, spottily, talipots, toplines, topsails, topsoils, tripolis, unspoilt. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 53 54 49 4C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- ... - .. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01010011 01010100 01001001 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O S T I L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 0053 0054 0049 004C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)504953544346 |
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