posterIte, poster i tie

[Fr. postérité, from Lat. posteritatem, acc. of poster it as futurity, posterity, from posterior =after, following, posterior (q. v.); Sp. poster i dad; Ital. poster ità.] 1. Succeeding generations. "Founded by us and left to posterity."-Goldinge: Caœ sar , fo. 229. 2. Descendants, children; the race which descends from a progenitor. (Opposed to ancestors .) "It should not stand in thy posterity .” Shakesp.: Macbeth , iii. 1.