What's the difference between postillate and preach?

Postillate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To explain by marginal notes; to postil.
  • (v. i.) To write postils; to comment.
  • (v. i.) To preach by expounding Scripture verse by verse, in regular order.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The postileal digestibility of the crude carbohydrates (CC) of 14 rations calculated from the difference between total digestibility (faecal analysis) and precaecal digestibility (analysis of the ileal chyme of IRA pigs) showed that between 40 and 100 g (70 g on average) out of the 780 g CC per kg DM consumed disappear in the large intestine.
  • (2) There is not yet an answer to the question in how far comparative studies of INT and IRA animals make verified statements with regard to the differences in the energetic utilization of the precaecally and postileally digested nutrients possible.
  • (3) A regressively calculated difference of 17%-units was regressively calculated between the utilization of metabolizable energy of either precaecal or postileal origin.
  • (4) Mature ponies fitted with permanent ileal cannulas were used in a 3 X 3 Latin square experiment to quantify prececal, postileal and total tract digestion of hay protein.
  • (5) Apparent postileal N digestibility was 52.5% for CB, 65.7% for LA and 66.9% for HA.
  • (6) For partioning the digestible energy into a prececal and postileal component the diet was supplemented with 0.3% Cr2O3, and samples of digesta taken by means of a cecum cannula were analyzed for this marker.
  • (7) This corresponds completely to the difference in the utilization of metabolizable energy between exclusively precaecal and postileal digestion.

Preach


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon.
  • (v. i.) To give serious advice on morals or religion; to discourse in the manner of a preacher.
  • (v. t.) To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
  • (v. t.) To inculcate in public discourse; to urge with earnestness by public teaching.
  • (v. t.) To deliver or pronounce; as, to preach a sermon.
  • (v. t.) To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.
  • (v. t.) To advise or recommend earnestly.
  • (v.) A religious discourse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some of these grime artists, if they’re telling you to vote, young people are going to listen.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest “Preach!” Speakers on the Grime 4 Corbyn panel debate.
  • (2) US Banker magazine, which ranked her the fifth most powerful female banker in the US, has quoted her as admitting to preaching a work-life balance but admitting: "I don't have much of one myself."
  • (3) Chief executive Lloyd Blankfein has been touring the world in recent weeks, preaching the virtues of restraint, self-discipline and responsibility.
  • (4) He has chosen to live in a modest Vatican hotel room instead of the grandeur of the apostolic palace; and he has dropped some of the papal pomp, while preaching the Roman Catholic church's need to identify with the world's poor.
  • (5) Governments, from the Sunni side the Saudi government, on the Shia side the Iranian government, have been putting fortunes of money into making sure that extremist mullahs are preaching in mosques around the world, and in building and developing schools in which a whole generation is being educated in extremism — and trying to prevent other forms of education.” • This article was amended on 13 January 2015 because an earlier version referred to “Oscar-winning filmmaker and author Sam Harris”.
  • (6) How could it happen in the world's largest democratic country and the land of Gandhi, who preached against all forms of violence?
  • (7) Hezza has given interviews to any passing newspaper today to preach his case, just as he did when he challenged Margaret Thatcher for the Tory leadership in November 1990.
  • (8) And those who preach or teach extremism, those who say we should not respect other Australians, those who seek to gnaw away at that social fabric, are not helping the Australian dream.
  • (9) HTB's services, the preaching, even the miracles, are all slick and informal and the atmosphere seems to most people genuinely friendly.
  • (10) Team Cameron will play the ball, not the man, and let voters decide for themselves | Toby Helm Read more Those who preached so often to their party about the necessity of winning general elections proved to be useless at winning a Labour one.
  • (11) He is right when he describes the poisonous narrative they preach and I welcome his comments that British Muslim communities have a powerful and important role to play in dealing with a situation that is becoming increasingly grave.
  • (12) Whereas the founding fathers of democratic South Africa preached non-racialism, Malema has caused uproar with his singing of the protest song Shoot the Boer‚ a reference to Afrikaner farmers.
  • (13) The gendered nature of posts – from pictures of me in underwear to comments about how fertility affects my decision-making – also shows we’ve still a long way to go to be a movement that practises the equality it preaches.
  • (14) The grace that Reverend Pinckney would preach about in his sermons.
  • (15) A network of activists linked to Osama bin Laden and other major figures in the new global jihad were active in France, preaching and recruiting.
  • (16) (Of course, she was also perfectly aware of the feminist content, what it said about the disgusted-attracted-contemptuous male gaze, but she preferred the art to ask the questions, discomfit, not preach.)
  • (17) They converted and started to insult us, saying we do not believe in the oneness of Allah because of our love for saints.” Every Pakistani knows these preaching, self-righteous conservatives ... but you never expect them to indulge in violence Nadeem Farooq Paracha Like so many others, the Malik family were helped along in their religious journey by the experience of living as guest workers in the oil-rich Arab world.
  • (18) Rather than talk of nationalisations, Podemos preaches public control and accountability.
  • (19) Rowan Williams was preaching in the Danish capital as crucial UN climate change talks entered their second and final week.
  • (20) But even monarchists should recognise that the Queen has survived some four decades of her son’s often eccentric preaching on numerous topics.

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