POSTERIOR
POSTE'RIOR, adjective [from Latin posterus, from post.]1. Later or subsequent in time.Hesiod was posterior to Homer.2. Later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after. ...
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POSTERIORITY
POSTERIOR'ITY, noun The state of being later or subsequent; as posteriority of time or of an event; opposed to priority.
POSTERIORS
POSTE'RIORS, nounplural The hinder parts of an animal body.
POSTERITY
POSTER'ITY, noun [Latin posteritas, from posterus, from post, after.]1. Descendants; children, children's children, etc. indefinitely; the race that proceeds from a progenitor. ...
POSTERN
POSTERN, noun [Latin post, behind.]1. Primarily, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate.2. In fortification, a small gate, usually in the angle o...
POSTFIX
POSTFIX, noun [Latin post, after, and fix.] In grammar, a letter, syllable or word added to the end of another word; a suffix.POSTFIX', verb transitive To add or annex a letter,...
POSTFIXED
POSTFIX'ED, participle passive Added to the end of a word.
POSTFIXING
POSTFIX'ING, participle present tense Adding to the end of a word.
POSTHUME
POST'HUME, adjective Posthumous. [Not used.]
POSTHUMOUS
POST'HUMOUS, adjective [Latin post, after, and humus, earth; humatus, buried.]1. Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as a posthumous s...
POSTHUMOUSLY
POST'HUMOUSLY, adverb After one's decease.
POSTIC
POSTIC, adjective [Latin posticus.] Backward. [Not used.]
POSTIL
POS'TIL, noun [Latin post.] A marginal note; originally, a note in the margin of the Bible, so called because written after the text.POS'TIL, verb transitive To write marginal n...
POSTILER
POS'TILER, noun One who writes marginal notes; one who illustrates the text of a book by notes in the margin.
POSTILLION
POSTILLION, noun postil'yon. One that rides and guides the first pair of horses in a coach or other carriage; also, one that rides one of the horses, when one pair only is used,...
POSTING
POSTING, participle present tense Setting up on a post; exposing the name or character to reproach by public advertisement.1. Placing; stationing.2. Transferring accounts to a l...
POSTLIMINIAR
POSTLIMIN'IARPOSTLIMIN'IOUS, adjective [See Postliminium.] Contrived, done or existing subsequently; as a post-liminious application.
POSTLIMINIOUS
POSTLIMIN'IOUS, a. [See Postliminium.] Contrived, done or existing subsequently; as a post-liminious application.
POSTLIMINIUM
POSTLIMIN'IUMPOSTLIM'INY, noun [Latin post, after, and limen, end, limit.]Postliminium, among the Romans, was the return of a person to his own country who had gone to sojourn i...
POSTLIMINY
POSTLIM'INY, n. [L. post, after, and limen, end, limit.]Postliminium, among the Romans, was the return of a person to his own country who had gone to sojourn in a foreign countr...
POSTMAN
POSTMAN, noun A post or courier; a letter-carrier.
POSTMARK
POSTMARK, noun The mark or stamp of a post-office on a letter.
POSTMASTER
POSTMASTER, noun The officer who has the superintendence and direction of a post-office.POSTMASTER-general, is the chief officer of the post-office department, whose duty is to ...
POSTMERIDIAN
POSTMERID'IAN, adjective [Latin postmeridianus. See Meridian.]Being or belonging to the afternoon; as postmeridian sleep.
POSTNATE
POSTNATE, adjective [Latin post, after, and natus, born.] Subsequent. [Little used.]
POSTNUPTIAL
POSTNUPTIAL, adjective [post and nuptial.] Being or happening after marriage; as a postnuptial settlement on a wife.
POSTPONE
POSTPO'NE, verb transitive [Latin 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 bi...