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From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective.

after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective. Ex post facto law, a law which operates by after enactment. The phrase is popularly applied to any law, civil or criminal, which is enacted with a retrospective effect, and with intention to produce that effect; but in its true appli…

, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with. Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong. Jowett (Thuc. ).

The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion. We must use expostulation kindly. Shak.

One who expostulates. Lamb.

Containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter.

Exposure. [Obs.] Shak.

A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support curtains. [Colloq.]

A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging or hinging post.

A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.

The post to which a gate or door is hinged.

That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.

To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize. [R.] The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether. Coleridge.

Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary. The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles. Boyle.

In a hypostatic manner.

regarded as, a separate and distinct substance. Looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

See Hypoplastron.

The lower lip of trilobites, crustaceans, etc.

The act of a patient turning himself.

Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; -- especially applied to the great hall at Karnak.