Also 7 -style, -stle. [a. Fr. apostille, of uncert. origin: see POSTIL.
Diez and Littré say from à to + postille; but Littré’s first quotation suggests a connection with OF. pa. pple. apost:—L. apposit-um, placed, added, annexed to. Fr. perhaps confused l’apostille, la postille.]
A marginal note, comment or annotation.
1527. State Papers Hen. VIII., I. 225. Copies of the same, with suche apostillis … in the mergentes, as in reding of them came unto my mynde.
1683. Temple, Mem., Wks. 1731, I. 423. The second Article they consented to, with an Apostyle of their own upon it.
1858. Motley, Dutch Rep., ii. 123. The world, in his [Philip’s] opinion, was to move upon protocols and apostilles. Ibid. (1860), Netherl. (1868), II. xvii. 303. He sat at his table, scrawling his apostilles.
