Inherited fromOld Englishpost(“pillar, door-post”) andLatinpostis(“a post, a door-post”) throughOld French.Thisetymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. OED indicates there's more to this.
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1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym;John Arbuthnot], “Of John Bull’s Second Wife, and the Good Advice that She Gave Him”, inLaw is a Bottomless-Pit.[…], London:[…]John Morphew,[…],→OCLC,page18:
You have notpoſted your Books theſe Ten years; hovv is it poſſible for a Man of Buſineſs to keep his Affairs even in the VVorld at this rate?
Toinform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often withup.
1872 March 2, “Interviewing a Prince”, inSaturday Review, volume33, number853, London, page273:
thoroughlyposted up in the politics and literature of the day
(transitive) To deposit a payment that may or may not be returned.
2022 January 1, Paul Bergman, Sara J. Berman,The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System, Nolo,→ISBN:
For example, if the police or court sets bail at $1,000, and a suspect owns a fancy watch worth at least that amount, the defendant may be able to use the watch topost bail.
2010 May 18, David Andrew Schultz,Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution, Infobase Publishing,→ISBN, page45:
Because wealthy defendants are better positioned topost bail or provide collateral, the American bail system has been criticized as being biased against the poor.
200605, Robert Perry,Dirty Money, iUniverse,→ISBN, page34:
Carmenposted a $15,000 bond, and like the other Valenzuelas before her, failed to appear for trial. Morgan's scorecard for case 4: 4.4 pounds seized, 2 Valenzuelas arrested, 1 Valenzuela dismissed, 1 bail jump.
1996, Lee N. June, Matthew Parker,Men to Men: Perspectives of Sixteen African-American Christian Men, Harper Collins,→ISBN, page201:
When youpost bail, and the case is over, the court system will take 30 percent of that bail which, in this example, will be $3,000 of the original 10 percent that you posted. Hence, you will get $7,000 back.
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2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 4, inIllusion of Order:
Although New York City preceded many large cities inposting a drop in homicides and other violent offenses in the early 1990s, by the end of the decade it also seemed to be at the forefront of a possible cyclical rebound.
(obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along apostroad, with responsibility forrelaying letters and dispatches of themonarch (and later others) along the route.[16th–17th c.]
(dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.
a stage or railwaypost
Amilitarybase; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
(now historical) Someone who travelsexpress along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; acourier.[from 16th c.]
1599,George Abbot,Geography, or a Brief Description of the Whole World:
in certain ſet places there be alwaies freshPoſts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the others
I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, Receiving them from such a worthlesspost.
2011,Thomas Penn,Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England, Penguin, published2012, page199:
information was filtered through the counting-houses and warehouses of Antwerp;posts galloped along the roads of the Low Countries, while dispatches streamed through Calais, and were passed off the merchant galleys arriving in London from the Flanders ports.
(UK,Australia,New Zealand) An organisation for deliveringletters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.[from 17th c.]
sent viapost;parcelpost
1707,Alexander Pope, Letter VII (to Mr. Wycherly), November 11
I take it too as an opportunity of sending you the fair copy of the poem on Dullness, which was not then finished, and which I should not care to hazard by the commonpost.
(UK,Australia,New Zealand) A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.[from 17th c.]
2020 November 18, “Stop & Examine”, inRail, page71:
Royal Mail worker Evette Chapman gathered a team of 12 colleagues to deliverpost in fancy dress and raise money for a nurses' charity and patients in Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton.
A message posted in an electronic or Internetforum, or on ablog, etc.[from 20th c.]
(American football) A moderate to deeppassingroute in which areceiver runs 10-20 yards from the line ofscrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.
Two of the receivers ranpost patterns.
(obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
post (third-person singular simple presentposts,present participleposting,simple past and past participleposted)
To travel withrelays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as acourier.[from 16th c.]
1816 June –1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley],Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.[…], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), London:[…][Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818,→OCLC:
Beyond Cologne we descended to the plain of Holland; and we resolved topost the remainder of our way […].
thousand at his bidding speed, Andpost o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait.
(UK,Australia,New Zealand) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.[from 19th c.]
Mail itemsposted before 7.00pm within the Central Business District and before 5.00pm outside the Central Business District will be delivered the next working day.
(horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially introtting.[from 19th c.]
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and securityposts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French governmentpost. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.
post (third-person singular simple presentposts,present participleposting,simple past and past participleposted)
To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
To assign to a station; to set; to place.
Post a sentinel in front of the door.
1839 September,Thomas De Quincey, “Early Memorials of Grasmere”, inAutobiographic Sketches: With Recollections of the Lakes (De Quincey’s Works; II), London:James Hogg & Sons,→OCLC,page116:
[I]t might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant that had passed as master and commander, or to get him "posted"—[…]
Toekomstig Amerikaans president Barack Obama maakt zijn keuzes bekend voor deposten binnen zijn kabinet op het gebied van veiligheid en buitenlands beleid. — President elect Barack Obama makes his choices known for theposts within his cabinet in the area of security and exterior policy. (nl.wikipedia, 12/3/2008)
"post", inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"post", inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"post", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
post inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
