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It a posthumous manner; after one's decease.

Backward. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Posterior.

lled because written after the text; hence, a marginal note; a comment. Langton also made postils upon the whole Bible. Foxe.

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

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. [Written also postillion.]

To explain by marginal notes; to postil. Tracts . . . postillated by his own hand. C. Knight.

The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in preaching.

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

See Postiler.

The act of traveling post.

Contrived, done, or existing subsequently. "Postliminious after applications of them to their purposes." South.

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. Burrill.

A voluntary at the end of a service.

A post or courier; a letter carrier.

The mark, or stamp, of a post office on a letter, giving the place and date of mailing or of arrival.

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.