2. To affix a date to after the event.

Post"date`, a. Made or done after the date assigned.

Of these [predictions] some were postdate; cunningly made after the

thing came to pass.

Fuller.

Post"date`, n. A date put to a bill of exchange or other paper, later

than that when it was actually made.

{ Post`di*lu"vi*al (?), Post`di*lu"vi*an (?), } a. [Pref. post- +

diluvial, diluvian.] Being or happening after the flood in Noah's days.

Post`di*lu"vi*an, n. One who lived after the flood.

Post"-dis*sei"zin (?), n. [Pref. post- + disseizin.] (O. Eng. Law) A

subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had

before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such

subsequent disseizin, now abolished. Burrill. Tomlins.

Post`-dis*sei"zor (?), n. [Pref. post- + disseizor.] (O. Eng. Law) A

person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before

recovered of the same disseizor. Blackstone.

||Post"e*a (?), n. [L., after these or those (things), afterward.]

||(Law) The return of the judge before whom a cause was tried, after a

||verdict, of what was done in the cause, which is indorsed on the nisi

||prius record. Wharton.

Pos"tel (?), n. Apostle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Post`en*ceph"a*lon (?), n. (Anat.) The metencephalon.

Post"en*try (?), n. [Pref. post- + entry.] 1. A second or subsequent,

at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake.

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