Emily Dickinson Lexicon

POST-PONE, v.t. [L. postpono; post, after, and pono, to put.]

1. To put off; to defer to a future or later time; to delay; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill or question to the afternoon, or to the following day.
2. To set below something else in value or importance. All other considerations should give way and be postponed to this. – Locke.