||Post-mor"tem (?), a. [L., after death.] After death; as, post-mortem
||rigidity.
Post-mortem examination (Med.), an examination of the body made after
the death of the patient; an autopsy.
||Post*na"res (?), n. pl. [NL. See Post-, and Nares.] (Anat.) The
||posterior nares. See Nares.
Post*na"tal (?), a. [Pref. post- + natal.] After birth; subsequent to
birth; as, postnatal infanticide; postnatal diseases.
Post"nate (?), a. [LL. postnatus second or subsequently born; L. post
after + natus born.] Subsequent. "The graces and gifts of the spirit
are postnate." [Archaic] Jer. Taylor.
Post" note` (?). (Com.) A note issued by a bank, payable at some future
specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand.
Burrill.
Post*nup"tial (?), a. [Pref. post- + nuptial.] Being or happening
after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife. Kent.
{ Post-o"bit (?), n., or Post-o"bit bond` }. [Pref. post- + obit.]
(Law) A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received
a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual
interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has
expectations. Bouvier.
||Post*ob`lon*ga"ta (?), n. [NL. See Post-, and Oblongata.] (Anat.) The
||posterior part of the medulla oblongata. B. G. Wilder.
Post*oc"u*lar (?), a. & n. [Pref. post- + ocular.] (Zoˆl.) Same as
Postorbital.
Post" of`fice (?), n. See under 4th Post.
Post*o"ral (?), a. [Pref. post- + oral.] (Anat.) Situated behind, or
posterior to, the mouth.
Post*or"bit*al (?), a. [Pref. post- + orbital.] (Anat. & Zoˆl.)
Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes
and reptiles. -- n. A postorbital bone or scale.
Post"paid` (?), a. Having the postage prepaid, as a letter.
Post*pal"a*tine (?), a. [Pref. post- + palatine.] (Anat.) Situated
behind the palate, or behind the palatine bones.
Post*pli"o*cene (?), a. (Geol.) [Pref. post- + pliocene.] Of or
pertaining to the period immediately following the Pliocene;
Pleistocene. Also used as a noun. See Quaternary.
Post*pone" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Postponed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Postponing.] [L. postponere, postpositum; post after + ponere to place,
put. See Post-, and Position.] 1. To defer to a future or later time;
to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to
adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following
day, or indefinitely.
His praise postponed, and never to be paid.
Cowper.
2. To place after, behind, or below something, in respect to
precedence, preference, value, or importance.
All other considerations should give way and be postponed to this.
Locke.
Syn. -- To adjourn; defer; delay; procrastinate.
Post*pone"ment (?), n. The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting
off, to a future time; a temporary delay. Macaulay.
Post*pon"ence (?), n. [From L. postponens, p. pr.] The act of
postponing, in sense 2. [Obs.] Johnson.
Post*pon"er (?), n. One who postpones.
Post*pose" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Postposed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Postposing.] [F. postposer. See Post-, and Pose, v. t.] To postpone.
[Obs.] Fuller.
Post*pos"it (?), v. t. [L. postpositus, p. p. See Postpone.] To
postpone. [Obs.] Feltham.
Post`po*si"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. postposition. See Postpone.] 1. The act
of placing after, or the state of being placed after. "The postposition
of the nominative case to the verb." Mede.
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2. A word or particle placed after, or at the end of, another word; --
distinguished from preposition.
Post`po*si"tion*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to postposition.
Post*pos"i*tive (?), a. [See Postpone.] Placed after another word; as,
a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter. - -
Post*pos"i*tive*ly, adv.
Post*pran"di*al (?), a. [Pref. post- + prandial.] Happening, or done,
after dinner; after- dinner; as, postprandial speeches.
Pos*tre`mo*gen"i*ture (?; 135), n. [L. postremus last + genitura birth,
geniture.] The right of the youngest born. Mozley & W.
Post`re*mote" (?), a. [Pref. post- + remote.] More remote in
subsequent time or order.
Post"rid`er (?), n. One who rides over a post road to carry the mails.
Bancroft.
||Post*scap"u*la (?), n. [NL. See Post-, and Scapula.] (Anat.) The part
||of the scapula behind or below the spine, or mesoscapula.
Post*scap"u*lar (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the postscapula;
infraspinous.
||Post*sce"ni*um (?), n. [L., fr. post + scena a scene.] The part of a
||theater behind the scenes; the back part of the stage of a theater.
Post*scribe" (?), v. t. [L. postscribere. See Postscript.] To make a
postscript. [R.] T. Adams.
Post"script (?), n. [L. postscriptus, (assumed) p. p. of postscribere
to write after; post after + scribere to write: cf. F. postscriptum.
See Post-, and Scribe.] A paragraph added to a letter after it is
concluded and signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or
composition after the main body of the work has been finished,
containing something omitted, or something new occurring to the writer.
[Abbrev. P. S.]
Post"script*ed, a. Having a postscript; added in a postscript. [R.] J.
Q. Adams.
||Post`scu*tel"lum (?), n. [NL. See Post-, and Scutellum.] (Zoˆl.) The
||hindermost dorsal piece of a thoracic somite of an insect; the plate
||behind the scutellum.
Post*sphe"noid (?), a. [Pref. post- + sphenoid.] (Anat.) Of or
pertaining to the posterior part of the sphenoid bone.
Post-tem"po*ral (?), a. [Pref. post- + temporal.] (Anat.) Situated
back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; --
applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle
with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes. -- n. A post-temporal
bone.
Post*ter"ti*a*ry (?), a. [Pref. post- + tertiary.] (Geol.) Following,
or more recent than, the Tertiary; Quaternary.
||Post"-tra`gus (?), n. [NL. See Post-, and Tragus.] (Anat.) A ridge
||within and behind the tragus in the ear of some animals.
Post`-tym*pan"ic (?), a. [Pref. post- + tympanic.] (Anat.) Situated
behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus.
Pos"tu*lant (?; 135), n. [F., fr. L. postulans, p. pr. of postulare.
See Postulate.] One who makes a request or demand; hence, a candidate.
Pos"tu*late (?), n. [L. postulatum a demand, request, prop. p. p. of
postulare to demand, prob. a dim. of poscere to demand, prob. for
porcscere; akin to G. forschen to search, investigate, Skr. prach to
ask, and L. precari to pray: cf. F. postulat. See Pray.] 1. Something
demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed
without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to
which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or
evidence.
2. (Geom.) The enunciation of a self- evident problem, in distinction
from an axiom, which is the enunciation of a self-evident theorem.
The distinction between a postulate and an axiom lies in this, --
that the latter is admitted to be self-evident, while the former
may be agreed upon between two reasoners, and admitted by both, but
not as proposition which it would be impossible to deny.
Eng. Cyc.
Pos"tu*late, a. Postulated. [Obs.] Hudibras.
Pos"tu*late (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Postulated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Postulating.] 1. To beg, or assume without proof; as, to postulate
conclusions.