To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.

To indicate the position of; to place.

Of or pertaining to position.

That which is capable of being affirmed; reality.

In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to negatively.

The quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See Positive, a.

A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte, which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useless and unprofitable.

A believer in positivism. Relating to positivism.

Positiveness.

See Posture.

A little basin; a porringer; a skillet.

Pertaining to posology.

The science or doctrine of doses; dosology.

A kind of militia in Poland, consisting of the gentry, which, in case of invasion, was summoned to the defense of the country.

To push; to dash; to throw.

See Posse comitatus.

To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold.

To invest with property.

Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.

A possessor; a property holder.

Of or pertaining to the possessive case; as, a possessival termination.

The possessive case.

In a possessive manner.

One who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor.

Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord.

To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood.

The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.

Capable of existing or occurring, or of being conceived or thought of; able to happen; capable of being done; not contrary to the nature of things; -- sometimes used to express extreme improbability; barely able to be, or to come to pass; as, possibly he is honest, as it is possible that Judas meant no wrong.

In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover.

An opossum.

With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.

See under 4th Post.

That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called abdomen.

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.

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.

A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor.

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.

In the broadest sense, the theory or practice of any of several groups of painters of the early 1900's, or of these groups taken collectively, whose work and theories have in common a tendency to reaction against the scientific and naturalistic character of impressionism and neo-impressionism. In a strict sense the term post-impressionism is used to denote the effort at self-expression, rather than representation, shown in the work of C/zanne, Matisse, etc.; but it is more broadly used to include cubism, the theory or practice of a movement in both painting and sculpture which lays stress upon volume as the important attribute of objects and attempts its expression by the use of geometrical figures or solids only; and futurism, a theory or practice which attempts to place the observer within the picture and to represent simultaneously a number of consecutive movements and impressions. In practice these theories and methods of the post-impressionists change with great rapidity and shade into one another, so that a picture may be both cubist and futurist in character. They tend to, and sometimes reach, a condition in which both representation and traditional decoration are entirely abolished and a work of art becomes a purely subjective expression in an arbitrary and personal language.

A small sheet of paper having the back part partly covered with a non-permanent gum which allows the note to be attached temporarily to another object, and easily removed without leaving any trace of glue on the object to which it was affixed. Such note papers are sold in pads of varying sizes.

After death; as, post-mortem rigidity.

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.

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. A post-temporal bone.

A ridge within and behind the tragus in the ear of some animals.

Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus.

Capable of being carried by, or as by, post.

An act done afterward.

The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post.

Belonging to the post office or mail service; as, postal arrangements; postal authorities.

Situated behind, or posterior to, the anus.

Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.

One who rides post horses; a position; a courier.

The inferior vena cava.

A bone in the pectoral girdle of many fishes projecting backward from the clavicle.

A transverse commisure in the posterior part of the roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commisure.

The concluding portion of the communion service.

The posterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain.

A date put to a bill of exchange or other paper, later than that when it was actually made.

One who lived after the flood.

Being or happening after the flood in Noah's days.

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.

The metencephalon.

A second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake.

One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier.

Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior.

The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.

Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.

The hinder parts, as of an animal's body.

The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham.

Back; being behind; private.

After the exile; belonging to a period subsequent to the Babylonian captivity or exile (b. c. 597 or about 586-about 537).

To exist after; to live subsequently.

Subsequent existence.

Existing or living after.

A fact that occurs after another.

Same as Postfact.

To annex; specifically (Gram.), to add or annex, as a letter, syllable, or word, to the end of another or principal word; to suffix.

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. A postfrontal bone.

One of the internal thoracic processes of the sternum of an insect.

The condition of being born after another in the same family; -- distinguished from primogeniture.

Formed or occurring after the last glacial epoch of the Pleistocene period, or at a locality within the area of Pleistocene glaciation after the final disappearance of the glacier from the locality. Of, pertaining to, or designating, an epoch after the last Glacial and before the Terrace epoch.

Situated behind the glenoid fossa of the temporal bone.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the studies pursued after graduation, esp., after receiving the bachelor's degree at a college; graduate. A student who pursues such studies.

With speed or expedition; as, he traveled posthaste; to send posthaste.

Circumcision.

A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained.

Posthumous.

Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter.

In a posthumous manner; after one's decease.

Backward.

Posterior. Situated on the outer side of a filament; -- said of an extrorse anther.

To write postils, or marginal notes; to comment; to postillate.

One who writers marginal notes; one who illustrates the text of a book by notes in the margin.

One who rides and guides the first pair of horses of a coach or post chaise; also, one who rides one of the horses when one pair only is used.

To write postils; to comment.

The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in preaching.

One who postillates; one who expounds the Scriptures verse by verse.

The act of traveling post.

Contrived, done, or existing subsequently.

Pertaining to, or involving, the right of postliminium.

The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy.

A voluntary at the end of a service.

A post or courier; a letter carrier.

To mark with a post-office stamp; as, to postmark a letter or parcel.

One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses.

The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet.

The office of postmaster.

Coming after the sun has passed the meridian; being in, or belonging to, the afternoon. (Abbrev. P. M.)

The posterior nares. See Nares.

After birth; subsequent to birth; as, postnatal infanticide; postnatal diseases.

Subsequent.

Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife.

The posterior part of the medulla oblongata.

Same as Postorbital.

Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth.

Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles. A postorbital bone or scale.

Having the postage prepaid, as a letter.

Situated behind the palate, or behind the palatine bones.

Of or pertaining to the period immediately following the Pliocene; Pleistocene. Also used as a noun. See Quaternary.

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.

The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay.