postpositive

Placed after something else, as a word. post-prandial, adj. Happening after dinner; after-dinner. "The introduction by some unhappy post -prandial corator of political allusions." -London Daily Telegraph . post-remote, adj . More remote in subsequent time or order. post-tabula, s. Arch.: A.reredos (q. v.). post-terminal, phr. Law ( of sittings): After the term. post-tertiary, a. Geol.: An epithet applied to a geological period (extending from the close of the Tertiary till now. Lyell divides it into the Pleistocene and the Recent sub-periods: Ethe ridge into the Glacial or Pleistocene, the Post-Glacial, the Pre-Historic, and the Historical sub-periods. Called also Quaternary.