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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. -- Post"ca`val, a. B. G. Wilder.

A bone in the pectoral girdle of many fishes projecting backward from the clavicle. -- Post`*cla*vic"u*lar, a.

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

The concluding portion of the communion service.

The posterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made.

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

One who lived after the flood.

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. Wharton.

Apostle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The metencephalon.

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

A large bill or placard intended to be posted in public places.

later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior. Hesiod was posterior to Homer. Broome.

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. Swift.

ended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham. If [the crown] should not stand in thy posterity. Shak.