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Meaning of "postillation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POSTILLATION

postillation  [ˌpɒstɪˈleɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POSTILLATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Postillation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POSTILLATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of postillation in the English dictionary

The definition of postillation in the dictionary is the writing or preaching of postils.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POSTILLATION


calculation
ˌkælkjʊˈleɪʃən
cancellation
ˌkænsɪˈleɪʃən
circulation
ˌsɜːkjʊˈleɪʃən
compilation
ˌkɒmpɪˈleɪʃən
correlation
ˌkɒrɪˈleɪʃən
formulation
ˌfɔːmjʊˈleɪʃən
installation
ˌɪnstəˈleɪʃən
insulation
ˌɪnsjʊˈleɪʃən
isolation
ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən
legislation
ˌlɛdʒɪsˈleɪʃən
manipulation
məˌnɪpjʊˈleɪʃən
musculation
ˌmʌskjʊˈleɪʃən
mutilation
ˌmjuːtɪˈleɪʃən
population
ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən
regulation
ˌrɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən
relation
rɪˈleɪʃən
simulation
ˌsɪmjʊˈleɪʃən
translation
trænsˈleɪʃən
ventilation
ˌvɛntɪˈleɪʃən
violation
ˌvaɪəˈleɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POSTILLATION

postical
postiche
posticous
postie
postil
postilion
postillate
postillator
postilled
postiller
postilling
postillion
postimperial
postimpressionism
postimpressionist
postimpressionistic
postinaugural
postindustrial
postinfection
posting

WORDS THAT END LIKE POSTILLATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of postillation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «postillation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POSTILLATION

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The translations of postillation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «postillation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

postillation
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

postillation
570 millions of speakers

English

postillation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

postillation
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

postillation
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

postillation
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

postillation
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

postillation
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

postillation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Postillation
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

postillation
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

postillation
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

postillation
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Postillation
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

postillation
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

postillation
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टोपली
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

postillation
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

postillation
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

postillation
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

postillation
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

postillation
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

postillation
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

postillation
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

postillation
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

postillation
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of postillation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POSTILLATION»

The term «postillation» is normally little used and occupies the 146.584 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about postillation

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POSTILLATION»

Discover the use of postillation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to postillation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln
It is also needful to leave out of sight his postillation of the Psalms, which, as the Lanercost Chronicle and Gascoigne 4 inform us, was effected continuously as far as the 100th Psalm, and was interrupted only by the prelate's death, thus clearly ...
Francis Seymour Stevenson, 1970
2
Gospels in the Schools, C. 1100 C. 1280
That was Eve's postillation of God's word, forbidding the fruit of the tree of good and evil (Gen. 2.17). The devil tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. She answered: God hath commanded us that we should not eat, and that we should not touch ...
Beryl Smalley, 1985
3
Of eloquence: studies in ancient and mediaeval rhetoric
Duplex est sermo: completus,"et_fit^ex omnibus quatuor predictis; incompletus solum fit ex duobus. Nota: Due sunt partes sermonis necessarie, scilicet: thema, divisio. Et alie due I unum om. A. The Oldest Method is the postillation, the mystical ...
Harry Caplan, 1970
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Selected offprints
Duplex est sermo: completus, et fit ex omnibus quatuor predictis; incompletus solum fit ex duobus. Nota: Due sunt partes sermonis necessarie, scilicet: thema, divisio. Et alie due ' unum otn. A. The Oldest Method is the postillation, the mystical ...
Harry Caplan, 1929
5
The Southern Quarterly Review
This postillation or exposition, was the method employed by Wicklif for his parochial instructions; more than three hundred of these, some little more than brief notes, others elaborately wrought out, still exist in the British museum, and the ...
Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, 1846
6
A New Universal, Technological, Etymological, and ...
POSTILLATION, pos-til-la'shun, s. Exposition of scripture in preaching. POSTILLATOR, pos'tU-la-tur, s. One who expounds scripture verse by verse. POSTILLER, pos'til-ur, s. One who writes marginal notes, or who illustrates the text of a book ...
John Craig, 1854
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A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing ...
Postillation, pos-til-la'shun, I, Exposition of scripture in preaching. Postillator, poe' til-la-tur, ». One who expounds scripture verso by verse. Postiller, pos'til-ur, ». One who writes marginal notes, or who illustrates the text of a book by notes in the ...
John Craig (F.G.S.), 1849
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Southern Quarterly Review
This postillation or exposition, was the method employed by Wicklif for his parochial instructions ; more than three hundred of these, some little more than brief notes, others elaborately wrought out, still exist in the British museum, and the ...
Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, 1846
9
Les Eschéz d'Amours: A Critical Edition of the Poem and its ...
Less specic postillation that does not have an obvious address we have left according to the mise-en-page of the manuscript. Second, several glossed passages in V are absent in, or are variants of D. Here, the dagger marking the gloss is to ...
Gregory Heyworth, Daniel E. O'sullivan, Frank Coulson, 2013
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A New Universal Etymological, Technological and Pronouncing ...
POSTILLATION, pos-til-la'shun, a. Expodtion of scripture in preaching. POSTILLATOR, pos'til-la-tur, |. One who expounds scripture verse by verse. POSTILLEB, pos'til-ur, a. One who writes marginal notes, or who illustrates the text of a. book ...
John Craig (lexicographer.), 1849

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