Post"-cap`tain (?), n. A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared,
or was "posted," in the seniority list of the British navy, as
distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term
was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as
post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has
fallen into disuse.
||Post"ca`va (?), n.; pl. PostcavÊ . [NL. See Post-, and Cave, n.]
||(Anat.) The inferior vena cava. -- Post"ca`val (#), a. B. G. Wilder.
Post*clav"i*cle (?), n. [Pref. post- + clavicle.] (Anat.) A bone in
the pectoral girdle of many fishes projecting backward from the
clavicle. -- Post`*cla*vic"u*lar (#), a.
Post*com"mis*sure (?), n. [Pref. post- + commisure.] (Anat.) A
transverse commisure in the posterior part of the roof of the third
ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commisure. B. G. Wilder.
Post`com*mun"ion (?), n. [Pref. post- + communion.] 1. (Ch. of Eng. &
Prot. Epis. Ch.) The concluding portion of the communion service.
2. (R. C. Ch.) A prayer or prayers which the priest says at Mass, after
the ablutions.
||Post*cor"nu (?), n.; pl. Postcornua (#). [NL. See Post-, and Cornu.]
||(Anat.) The posterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B.
||G. Wilder.
Post"date` (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Postdated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Postdating.] [Pref. post- + date.] 1. To date after the real time; as,
to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it
was in fact made.