post|script

post|script
post|script «POHST skrihpt», noun.
1. an addition to a letter, written after the writer's name has been signed: »

Sir Gervaise…had written his mind in his postscript (James Fenimore Cooper).

Abbr: P.S.
2. Figurative. a supplementary part added to any composition or literary work: »

Lazarsfeld…touches the nerve of the matter in his postscript to the study (Saturday Review).

SYNONYM(S): addendum, appendix.
[short for earlier postscriptum < Medieval Latin, (originally) neuter past participle of postscribere < Latin post- after + scrībere to write]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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