Emily Dickinson Lexicon

POST-A-BLE, a.

That may be carried. [Not used.] – Mountague.

POST-AGE, n.

1. The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter in a public mail.
2. 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.

1. Placed; stationed.
2. Exposed on a post or by public notice.
3. Carried to a ledger, as accounts.

POST-ER, n.

1. One who posts; also a courier; one that travels expeditiously.
2. A large bill posted for advertising.

POS-TE'RI-OR, a. [from L. posterus, from post, after; Fr. posterieur.]

1. Later or subsequent in time. Hesiod was posterior to Homer. – Broome.
2. 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.]

1. Descendants; children, children's children, &c. indefinitely; the race that proceeds from a progenitor. The whole human race are the posterity of Adam.
2. 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.]

1. Primarily, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate. – Dryden. Locke.
2. 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.