Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: POST-A-BLE – POST-FINE
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POST-A-BLE, a.
That may be carried. [Not used.] – Mountague.
POST-AGE, n.
- The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter in a public mail.
- A portage. [Not used.] – Smollet.
POST-BILL, n.
A bill of letters mailed by a postmaster.
POST-BOY, n.
A boy that rides as post; a courier. – Tatler.
POST-CHAISE, n. [See Chaise.]
A carriage with four wheels for the conveyance of travelers.
POST-DATE, v.t. [L. post, after, and date, L. datum.]
To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it after the true time of making the contract.
POST-DAT-ED, pp.
Dated after the real time.
POST-DAT-ING, ppr.
Dating after the real time.
POST-DI-LU'VI-AL, or POST-DI-LU'VI-AN, a. [L. post, after, and diluvium, the deluge.]
Being or happening posterior to the flood in Noah's days. – Woodward. Buckland.
POST-DI-LU'VI-AN, n.
A person who lived after the flood, or who has lived since that event. – Grew.
POST-DIS-SEI-ZIN, n.
A subsequent disseizin. A writ of post-disseizin is intended to put in possession a person who has been disseized after a judgment to recover the same lands of the same person, under the statute of Merton. – Blackstone.
POST-DIS-SEI-ZOR, n.
A person who disseizes another of lands which he had before recovered of the same person. – Blackstone.
POST-E-A, n. [L.]
The record of what is done in a cause subsequent to the joining of issue and awarding of trial. – Blackstone.
POST-ED, pp.
- Placed; stationed.
- Exposed on a post or by public notice.
- Carried to a ledger, as accounts.
POST-ER, n.
- One who posts; also a courier; one that travels expeditiously.
- A large bill posted for advertising.
POS-TE'RI-OR, a. [from L. posterus, from post, after; Fr. posterieur.]
- Later or subsequent in time. Hesiod was posterior to Homer. – Broome.
- Later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after. [Unfrequent.]
POS-TE-RI-OR'I-TY, n. [Fr. posteriorité.]
The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time or of an event; opposed to priority. – Hale.
POS-TE'RI-OR-LY, adv.
Subsequently in time.
POS-TE'RI-ORS, n. [plur.]
The hinder parts of an animal body. – Swift.
POS-TER'I-TY, n. [Fr. posterité; L. posteritas, from posterus, from post, after.]
- Descendants; children, children's children, &c. indefinitely; the race that proceeds from a progenitor. The whole human race are the posterity of Adam.
- In a general sense, succeeding generations; opposed to ancestors. To the unhappy that unjustly bleed, / Heav'n gives posterity t' avenge the deed. – Pope.
POST-ERN, a.
Back; being behind; private. – Dryden.
POST-ERN, n. [Fr. pôterne, for posterne, from L. post, behind.]
- Primarily, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate. – Dryden. Locke.
- In fortification, a small gate, usually in the angle of the flank of a bastion, or in that of the curtain or near the orillon, descending into the ditch. – Encyc.
POST-EX-IST'ENCE, n.
Subsequent or future existence. – Addison.
POST-FACT, a. [L. post factum.]
Relating to a fact that occurs after another; or as a noun, a fact that occurs after another.
POST-FINE, n.
In English law, a fine due to the king by prerogative, after a licentia concordandi given in a fine of lands and tenements; called also the king's silver. – Blackstone.