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postillers

postillers is the plural 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.

Questions about postillers

What is postillers the plural of?
Postillers is the plural of postiller.

Words near postillers in the dictionary

  1. postillations
  2. postillator
  3. postillators
  4. postilled
  5. postiller
  6. postillers
  7. postilling
  8. postillion
  9. postillions
  10. postillumination
  11. postils

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