Their names shall be transmitted to posterity.
Shak.
Their names shall be transmitted to posterity.
Smalridge.
Pos"tern (?), n. [OF. posterne, posterle, F. poterne, fr. L. posterula,
fr. posterus coming after. See Posterior.] 1. Originally, a back door
or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate.
He by a privy postern took his flight.
Spenser.
Out at the postern, by the abbey wall.
Shak.
2. (Fort.) A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and
the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the
outworks. Mahan.
Pos"tern, a. Back; being behind; private. "The postern door." Dryden.
Pos"te*ro- (&?;). A combining form meaning posterior, back; as,
postero-inferior, situated back and below; postero-lateral, situated
back and at the side.
Post`ex*ist" (?), v. i. [Pref. post- + exist.] To exist after; to live
subsequently. [Obs. or R.]
Post`ex*ist"ence (?), n. Subsequent existence.
Post`ex*ist"ent (?), a. Existing or living after. [R.] "Postexistent
atoms." Cudworth.
Post"fact` (?), a. [See Post-, and Fact.] Relating to a fact that
occurs after another.
Post"fact`, n. A fact that occurs after another. "Confirmed upon the
postfact." Fuller.
||Post`fac"tum (?), n. [LL.] (Rom. & Eng. Law) Same as Postfact.
Post"-fine` (?), n. [Pref. post- + fine.] (O. Eng. Law) A duty paid to
the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully
passed; -- called also the king's silver.
Post"fix (?), n.; pl. Postfixes (#). [Pref. post- + -fix, as in prefix:
cf. F. postfixe.] (Gram.) A letter, syllable, or word, added to the end
of another word; a suffix. Parkhurst.
Post*fix" (?), v. t. To annex; specifically (Gram.), to add or annex,
as a letter, syllable, or word, to the end of another or principal
word; to suffix. Parkhurst.
Post*fron"tal (?), a. [Pref. post- + frontal.] (Anat.) Situated behind
the frontal bone or the frontal region of the skull; -- applied
especially to a bone back of and below the frontal in many animals. --
n. A postfrontal bone.
||Post*fur"ca (?), n.; pl. PostfurcÊ (#). [NL., fr. post behind + furca
||a fork.] (Zoˆl.) One of the internal thoracic processes of the
||sternum of an insect.
Post*gen"i*ture (?; 135), n. [Pref. post- + L. genitura birth,
geniture.] The condition of being born after another in the same
family; -- distinguished from primogeniture. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Post*gle"noid (?), a. [Pref. post- + glenoid.] (Anat.) Situated behind
the glenoid fossa of the temporal bone.
Post`haste" (?), n. Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or
courier. Shak.
Post`haste, adv. With speed or expedition; as, he traveled posthaste;
to send posthaste. Shak.
Pos*thet"o*my (?), n. [Gr. po`sqh prepuce + te`mnein to cut.] (Med.)
Circumcision. Dunglison.
Post"house` (?), n. 1. A house established for the convenience of the
post, where relays of horses can be obtained.