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postiler

postiler is the alternative form of postiller.

Meaning of postiller

Noun

postiller (plural postillers)

  1. (archaic) A writer of notes in the margin of a book.
    • It hath been averred by many holy writers, commonly delivered by postillers and commentators1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
  2. (archaic) A preacher.

Forms of postiler

pluralpostilers

Questions about postiler

What is postiler the alternative form of?
Postiler is the alternative form of postiller.

Words near postiler in the dictionary

  1. postideological
  2. postie
  3. posties
  4. postil
  5. postiled
  6. postiler
  7. postilers
  8. postiling
  9. postilion
  10. postilion sentence
  11. postilion sentences

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Adapted from Wiktionary: postiler (page history and authors); postiller (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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