postscriptn.¹

Brit.

/ˈpəʊs(t)skrɪpt/, U.S.

/ˈpoʊs(t)ˌskrɪpt/

Forms: 1500s– postscript, 1600s postscripte; also Scottish pre-1700 poskript.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Apparently either (i) formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Or (ii) a borrowing from French. Etymons: post scriptum n.; French postscript.

Etymology: Apparently either shortened < post scriptum n., or < Middle French, French †postscript (1509 as postcripte; French †postscrit). Compare Italian poscritto (1561; 1527 as poscritta); also German Postskript (1758 or earlier as Post-script), Swedish postskript (1707).

a. A paragraph or passage written at the end of a letter, after the signature, containing an afterthought or additional matter.

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society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > postscript

postscript1546

after-writing1598

P.S.1757

1546 in Acts Privy Council (1890) I. 564 .

1551 in Acts Privy Council (1891) III. 409 A lettre to the Lorde Ogle..with a post script to send the sayd Irisheman by Mr. Dudley and Mr. Shelley.

1590 Cobler of Caunterburie 32 Hee..thought a letter was not worth a rush, vnlesse there were some verses at the latter end, and there he affixed as a postscript this amarous ditty.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 130 I knew one, that when he wrote a Letter, he would put that which was most Materiall, in the Post-script, as if it had been a By-matter.

1655 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 191 This burthening you with Postscripts is, I confess, a rude way of writeing.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 79. ⁋5 A Woman seldom writes her Mind but in her Postscript.

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. x. 273 It's like a Lady's Postscript, which, they tell you, contains the essence of the letter.

1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xxii. 374 At the end of the letter there was a brief postscript.

1925 W. Cather Professor's House iii. iv. 273 Lillian added a postscript to the effect that by this same mail she was getting off a letter to Augusta.

1987 S. Weintraub Victoria (1988) ii. 38 The Duke's equerry, the letter added in a postscript, would be sent ahead to handle all details.

b. A paragraph, passage, etc., written or printed at the end of any composition, containing some appended matter.

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society > communication > writing > written text > layout > [noun] > piece of writing at end

subscriptionc1450

postscript1596

society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [noun] > addition or appendix

supplement1523

appendix1549

referendary1581

supply1584

postscript1596

corollary1603

annexary1605

annexe1625

appendage1651

streamer1696

tack1705

taga1734

rider1813

pendant1837

overmatter1887

afterword1890

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. V4^v Hath he..infected them all with his methode of Lenuoyes, Post-scripts and Preambles.

1638 Penit. Conf. (1657) xii. 317 Towards the end whereof is an Appendix or Post-script.

1707 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 200 The parliament of Ireland have burnt by the common hangman the postscript to Mr. Higgins sermon.

1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xx. 142 The gentleman, who ha[s] published an answer to Sir William Meredith's pamphlet, having honoured me with a postscript of six quarto pages.

1890 D. Masson in T. De Quincey Wks. IV. 321 (note) What is here printed as a ‘postscript’ appeared as a portion of De Quincey's ‘Preface’ to Vol. V. of his Collected Writings.

1948 S. O. Andrew (title) Postscript on Beowulf.

1989 W. Taubman & J. Taubman Moscow Spring (1990) 52 We could add a postscript, reflecting on the complicated human cost of even the most needed reforms.

2. In extended and figurative use.

a. Something added on or happening later; spec. an additional or conclusory remark or action, an afterthought, a sequel.

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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun] > afterword, postscript, or following part of a book

post scriptum1523

consequent1612

P.S.1842

postlude1889

postscript1926

1616 J. Lane Contin. Chaucer's Squire's Tale (1888) iii. 91 After the void, praeserves in a silvern plate set such a postscripte to ann antedate, As not a common penn knows to define.

1816 Ld. Byron Let. 25 Nov. (1976) V. 133 She has the voice of a lute—and the song of a Seraph..besides a long postscript of graces—virtues and accomplishments.

a1817 J. Austen Watsons in Wks. (1954) VI. 338 A note..from her Sister; But to which he must observe that a verbal postscript from himself w^d be requisite.

1870 W. Thornbury Tour Eng. I. i. 5 Brentford [was] always a mere ecclesiastical postscript to Hanwell or Ealing.

1926 C. Hamilton in Hutchinson's Best Story Mag. Nov. 16/1 ‘We are to keep each other company until my son returns,’ she added. And as a postscript, ‘It is his wish.’

1965 Listener 23 Sept. 463/3 Would he have expanded during his sixty-odd extra years, or remained as much a postscript from the 'nineties as Max?

1989 D. Oxrent & S. Wulf Baseball Anecd. iv. 187 The postscripts to the Robinson saga.

b. Also Postscript. Now historical. Any of a series of short talks broadcast after a BBC radio news bulletin between 1940 and 1944.

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society > communication > broadcasting > radio broadcasting > [noun] > types of programme

radio show1921

children's hour1923

series1923

scrap-book1933

postscript1940

write-in1947

radiothon1953

1940 Radio Times 18 Oct. 3/1 Priestley fans in this country..hear him only once a week, when he gives his Sunday-night postscript.

1961 E. Waugh Unconditional Surrender i. iii. 48 The BBC don't want to renew ‘The Voice of Trimmer’ Sunday evening postscripts.

1994 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 10 Dec. a15/3 The ‘Postscripts’ he gave on the BBC in 1940..were probably the most successful examples ever of the spoken word being used to raise spirits, not with tub-thumping but with gentle, penetrative philosophy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

PostScriptn.²

Brit.

/ˈpəʊs(t)skrɪpt/, U.S.

/ˈpoʊs(t)ˌskrɪpt/

Forms: 1900s– PostScript, 1900s– Postscript, 1900s– postscript.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: postfix adj., script n.¹

Etymology: < post- (in postfix adj.) + script n.¹, with punning allusion to postscript n.¹

Computing.

A proprietary name for: a postfix-notation programming language chiefly used for describing the contents of a page for printing or display.

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1985 Business Wire (Nexis) 23 Jan. The LaserWriter uses a Canon (TM) LBP-CX10 engine, a powerful built-in computer with two megabytes of memory designed by Apple; and PostScript (TM), a software language developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated.

1985 PostScript Lang. Ref. Man. p. vii This third incarnation, called ‘ Postscript’, is again used as an interpretive graphics description language.

1990 Computer Buyer's Guide & Handbk. 8 vi. 50/2 True PostScript images..consist of mathematically defined lines and curves known as Bézier curves.

1996 Blueprint July 31/1 Often criticised for its illegibility, the work has a direct, almost innocent freshness that endures even now that Postscript has made bitmapping a need of the past.

2000 Wired Jan. 156/1 The document you download, unzip, and detar only to find it summarily dismissed by your PostScript printer.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† postscriptadj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin post, scrīptus, scrībere.

Etymology: < classical Latin post (see post- prefix) + scrīptus, past participle of scrībere to write (see scribe n.¹), after postscript n.¹ Compare earlier prescript adj.¹

Obsolete. rare.

Written later.

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society > communication > writing > state of having been written > [adjective] > written afterwards

postscript1655

postscriptal1868

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles A ij That were..to extinguish the light of all Histories.., the greatest part whereof were Postscript an age at least to the things recorded.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

postscriptv.

Brit.

/ˈpəʊs(t)skrɪpt/, U.S.

/ˈpoʊs(t)ˌskrɪpt/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: postscript n.¹

Etymology: < postscript n.¹ Compare earlier postscribe v.

transitive. To put a postscript to, provide with a postscript. Also: to write as a postscript.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > write parts of composition [verb (transitive)] > furnish with epilogue or conclusion

epilogize1623

postscript1877

society > communication > writing > [verb (transitive)] > write afterwards

postscribe1612

postscript1970

society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > write parts of composition [verb (transitive)] > furnish with epilogue or conclusion > write as epilogue or conclusion

postscript1970

1877 Harper's Mag. May 907/2 Deeply channeled by trouble, lined and interlined and postscripted by grief, it [sc. that old face] yet had a look most sweet to see.

1894 A. Dobson 18th Cent. Vignettes 2nd Ser. ii. 27 Defoe prefaced and postscripted this modest effort.

1951 tr. P. J. Proudhon Idée générale de la Révolution in D. O. Evans Social Romanticism in France 71 To be governed is..to be ticketed, registered,..patented, warranted, postscripted, admonished, [etc.].

1970 D. Marlowe Echoes of Celandine vii. 127 He remembered writing a letter to her... Suddenly one realizes, he had postscripted, that there is a sadness.

1990 Debonair Jan. 91/1 Enough will have been written about the elections..by now, but the topic remains irresistible and I won't pass the chance of post-scripting my comments.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1546

n.²1985

adj.1655

v.1877

单词	postscript
释义	postscriptn.¹ Brit. /ˈpəʊs(t)skrɪpt/, U.S. /ˈpoʊs(t)ˌskrɪpt/ Forms: 1500s– postscript, 1600s postscripte; also Scottish pre-1700 poskript. Origin: Of multiple origins. Apparently either (i) formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Or (ii) a borrowing from French. Etymons: post scriptum n.; French postscript. Etymology: Apparently either shortened < post scriptum n., or < Middle French, French †postscript (1509 as postcripte; French †postscrit). Compare Italian poscritto (1561; 1527 as poscritta); also German Postskript (1758 or earlier as Post-script), Swedish postskript (1707). 1. a. A paragraph or passage written at the end of a letter, after the signature, containing an afterthought or additional matter. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > postscript postscript1546 after-writing1598 P.S.1757 1546 in Acts Privy Council (1890) I. 564 . 1551 in Acts Privy Council (1891) III. 409 A lettre to the Lorde Ogle..with a post script to send the sayd Irisheman by Mr. Dudley and Mr. Shelley. 1590 Cobler of Caunterburie 32 Hee..thought a letter was not worth a rush, vnlesse there were some verses at the latter end, and there he affixed as a postscript this amarous ditty. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 130 I knew one, that when he wrote a Letter, he would put that which was most Materiall, in the Post-script, as if it had been a By-matter. 1655 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 191 This burthening you with Postscripts is, I confess, a rude way of writeing. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 79. ⁋5 A Woman seldom writes her Mind but in her Postscript. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. x. 273 It's like a Lady's Postscript, which, they tell you, contains the essence of the letter. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xxii. 374 At the end of the letter there was a brief postscript. 1925 W. Cather Professor's House iii. iv. 273 Lillian added a postscript to the effect that by this same mail she was getting off a letter to Augusta. 1987 S. Weintraub Victoria (1988) ii. 38 The Duke's equerry, the letter added in a postscript, would be sent ahead to handle all details. b. A paragraph, passage, etc., written or printed at the end of any composition, containing some appended matter. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > layout > [noun] > piece of writing at end subscriptionc1450 postscript1596 society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [noun] > addition or appendix supplement1523 appendix1549 referendary1581 supply1584 postscript1596 corollary1603 annexary1605 annexe1625 appendage1651 streamer1696 tack1705 taga1734 rider1813 pendant1837 overmatter1887 afterword1890 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. V4^v Hath he..infected them all with his methode of Lenuoyes, Post-scripts and Preambles. 1638 Penit. Conf. (1657) xii. 317 Towards the end whereof is an Appendix or Post-script. 1707 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 200 The parliament of Ireland have burnt by the common hangman the postscript to Mr. Higgins sermon. 1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xx. 142 The gentleman, who ha[s] published an answer to Sir William Meredith's pamphlet, having honoured me with a postscript of six quarto pages. 1890 D. Masson in T. De Quincey Wks. IV. 321 (note) What is here printed as a ‘postscript’ appeared as a portion of De Quincey's ‘Preface’ to Vol. V. of his Collected Writings. 1948 S. O. Andrew (title) Postscript on Beowulf. 1989 W. Taubman & J. Taubman Moscow Spring (1990) 52 We could add a postscript, reflecting on the complicated human cost of even the most needed reforms. 2. In extended and figurative use. a. Something added on or happening later; spec. an additional or conclusory remark or action, an afterthought, a sequel. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun] > afterword, postscript, or following part of a book post scriptum1523 consequent1612 P.S.1842 postlude1889 postscript1926 1616 J. Lane Contin. Chaucer's Squire's Tale (1888) iii. 91 After the void, praeserves in a silvern plate set such a postscripte to ann antedate, As not a common penn knows to define. 1816 Ld. Byron Let. 25 Nov. (1976) V. 133 She has the voice of a lute—and the song of a Seraph..besides a long postscript of graces—virtues and accomplishments. a1817 J. Austen Watsons in Wks. (1954) VI. 338 A note..from her Sister; But to which he must observe that a verbal postscript from himself w^d be requisite. 1870 W. Thornbury Tour Eng. I. i. 5 Brentford [was] always a mere ecclesiastical postscript to Hanwell or Ealing. 1926 C. Hamilton in Hutchinson's Best Story Mag. Nov. 16/1 ‘We are to keep each other company until my son returns,’ she added. And as a postscript, ‘It is his wish.’ 1965 Listener 23 Sept. 463/3 Would he have expanded during his sixty-odd extra years, or remained as much a postscript from the 'nineties as Max? 1989 D. Oxrent & S. Wulf Baseball Anecd. iv. 187 The postscripts to the Robinson saga. b. Also Postscript. Now historical. Any of a series of short talks broadcast after a BBC radio news bulletin between 1940 and 1944. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > radio broadcasting > [noun] > types of programme radio show1921 children's hour1923 series1923 scrap-book1933 postscript1940 write-in1947 radiothon1953 1940 Radio Times 18 Oct. 3/1 Priestley fans in this country..hear him only once a week, when he gives his Sunday-night postscript. 1961 E. Waugh Unconditional Surrender i. iii. 48 The BBC don't want to renew ‘The Voice of Trimmer’ Sunday evening postscripts. 1994 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 10 Dec. a15/3 The ‘Postscripts’ he gave on the BBC in 1940..were probably the most successful examples ever of the spoken word being used to raise spirits, not with tub-thumping but with gentle, penetrative philosophy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). PostScriptn.² Brit. /ˈpəʊs(t)skrɪpt/, U.S. /ˈpoʊs(t)ˌskrɪpt/ Forms: 1900s– PostScript, 1900s– Postscript, 1900s– postscript. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: postfix adj., script n.¹ Etymology: < post- (in postfix adj.) + script n.¹, with punning allusion to postscript n.¹ Computing. A proprietary name for: a postfix-notation programming language chiefly used for describing the contents of a page for printing or display. ΚΠ 1985 Business Wire (Nexis) 23 Jan. The LaserWriter uses a Canon (TM) LBP-CX10 engine, a powerful built-in computer with two megabytes of memory designed by Apple; and PostScript (TM), a software language developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. 1985 PostScript Lang. Ref. Man. p. vii This third incarnation, called ‘ Postscript’, is again used as an interpretive graphics description language. 1990 Computer Buyer's Guide & Handbk. 8 vi. 50/2 True PostScript images..consist of mathematically defined lines and curves known as Bézier curves. 1996 Blueprint July 31/1 Often criticised for its illegibility, the work has a direct, almost innocent freshness that endures even now that Postscript has made bitmapping a need of the past. 2000 Wired Jan. 156/1 The document you download, unzip, and detar only to find it summarily dismissed by your PostScript printer. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † postscriptadj. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin post, scrīptus, scrībere. Etymology: < classical Latin post (see post- prefix) + scrīptus, past participle of scrībere to write (see scribe n.¹), after postscript n.¹ Compare earlier prescript adj.¹ Obsolete. rare. Written later. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > state of having been written > [adjective] > written afterwards postscript1655 postscriptal1868 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles A ij That were..to extinguish the light of all Histories.., the greatest part whereof were Postscript an age at least to the things recorded. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020). postscriptv. Brit. /ˈpəʊs(t)skrɪpt/, U.S. /ˈpoʊs(t)ˌskrɪpt/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: postscript n.¹ Etymology: < postscript n.¹ Compare earlier postscribe v. transitive. To put a postscript to, provide with a postscript. Also: to write as a postscript. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > write parts of composition [verb (transitive)] > furnish with epilogue or conclusion epilogize1623 postscript1877 society > communication > writing > [verb (transitive)] > write afterwards postscribe1612 postscript1970 society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > write parts of composition [verb (transitive)] > furnish with epilogue or conclusion > write as epilogue or conclusion postscript1970 1877 Harper's Mag. May 907/2 Deeply channeled by trouble, lined and interlined and postscripted by grief, it [sc. that old face] yet had a look most sweet to see. 1894 A. Dobson 18th Cent. Vignettes 2nd Ser. ii. 27 Defoe prefaced and postscripted this modest effort. 1951 tr. P. J. Proudhon Idée générale de la Révolution in D. O. Evans Social Romanticism in France 71 To be governed is..to be ticketed, registered,..patented, warranted, postscripted, admonished, [etc.]. 1970 D. Marlowe Echoes of Celandine vii. 127 He remembered writing a letter to her... Suddenly one realizes, he had postscripted, that there is a sadness. 1990 Debonair Jan. 91/1 Enough will have been written about the elections..by now, but the topic remains irresistible and I won't pass the chance of post-scripting my comments. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1546n.²1985adj.1655v.1877
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PostScriptn.2

† postscriptadj.

postscriptv.

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