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Etymology

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From Latin postpositus, past participle. See postpone.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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postposit (third-person singular simple present postposits, present participle postpositing, simple past and past participle postposited)

  1. (obsolete) To postpone; to defer.
    • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
      Often in our Love to her , our Love to God is swallowed and postposited.

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postposit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.