posthumous (post umus)

and n. [Prop. postumous; = F. posthume = Sp. póstumo = Pg. posthumo = It. postumo, IMG:content-0718.png:[blocks in formation] The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthu mous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free. Macaulay , Mill on Government. II. n. A posthumous child. [Rare.] My brother Thomas was a posthumous , as being born some weeks after his father's death. Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Life (ed. Howells), p. 32. especially, after an author's death. post-hippocampal (post-hip-ō-kam'pal), a . [L. post , behind, + NL. hippocampus .] Situ: posthumously (pos'tū-mus-li), adv . After one's ated behind the hippocampus: specifically in Owen's name, post - hippocampal fi ure, of the calcarine fi ure or sulcus. post hit is (pos-thī'tis), n. [NL., prepuce. post-holder (post'hōl"dėr), n. One who holds a post or place under government; a civil official at a foreign or colonial station. Serah and Larat, both islets of the Timorlaut group, where the Government had just then placed Postholders (civil officials of subordinate rank) charged with initia tory work of these new colonies. II . O. Forbes , Eastern Archipelago, p. 289. post-hole (post'hol), n. A hole cut in the ground to receive the end of a fence-post.Post-hole auger. See auger , 2.-Post-hole borer, a IMG:content-0719.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A series of comments, specifically on Scripture; a commentary, or written exposition.3. A sermon or homily; specifically, a homily following and treating of the liturgical gospel; also, a collection of such homilies. But in the homes the old prayer-books and the old Luther an postils were still gladly and frequently used. Bibliotheca Sacra , XLV. 136. postilt (pos'til), v . [Also postel ; postiller = Sp. postilar = Pg. postillar = It. post ill are , post ill are , write a postil: see postil , n .] I. in trans . To write or deliver a postil. To postell vpon a kyry. Skelton , Colyn Cloute, 1. 755. II. trans . To explain or illustrate by a postil. I doe remember to haue seene long since a book of ac compt of Empson's that was in some places postilled in the margent with the King's hand. Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII., p. 211.