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Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter. -- Post*pos"i*tive*ly, adv.

Happening, or done, after dinner; after-dinner; as, postprandial speeches.

The right of the youngest born. Mozley & W.

More remote in subsequent time or order.

One who rides over a post road to carry the mails. Bancroft.

The part of the scapula behind or below the spine, or mesoscapula.

Of or pertaining to the postscapula; infraspinous.

The part of a theater behind the scenes; the back part of the stage of a theater.

To make a postscript. [R.] T. Adams.

A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or composition after the main body of the work has been finished, containing something omitted, or something new occurring to the writer. [Abbrev. P. S.]

Having a postscript; added in a postscript. [R.] J. Q. Adams.

The hindermost dorsal piece of a thoracic somite of an insect; the plate behind the scutellum.

Of or pertaining to the posterior part of the sphenoid bone.

Following, or more recent than, the Tertiary; Quaternary.

One who makes a request or demand; hence, a candidate.

m an axiom, which is the enunciation of a self-evident theorem. The distinction between a postulate and an axiom lies in this, -- that the latter is admitted to be self-evident, while the former may be agreed upon between two reasoners, and admitted by both, but not as proposition which it would be impossible to deny.…

Assumed without proof; as, a postulated inference. Sir T. Browne.

The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.

Of the nature of a postulate. Sir T. Browne.

A postulate. Addison.