'To post off' definitions:
Definition of 'To post off'
From: GCIDE
- Post \Post\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Posted; p. pr. & vb. n. Posting.]
- 1. To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Formerly, a large post was erected before the sheriff's office, or in some public place, upon which legal notices were displayed. This way of advertisement has not entirely gone of use. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice. [1913 Webster]
- On pain of being posted to your sorrow Fail not, at four, to meet me. --Granville. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel. "It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant, . . . or to get him posted." --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Bookkeeping) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger. [1913 Webster]
- You have not posted your books these ten years. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up. [1913 Webster]
- Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day. --Lond. Sat. Rev. [1913 Webster]
- To post off, to put off; to delay. [Obs.] "Why did I, venturously, post off so great a business?" --Baxter.
- To post over, to hurry over. [Obs.] --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'To post off'
- Post,
- Post-,
- Posted,
- Posting,
- To post over,
- Binding post,
- Book post,
- Cossack post,
- Finger post,
- Folio post,
- Foot post,
- From pillar to post,
- Gradient post,
- Inner post,
- Iron Post,
- Jack post,
- Knight of the post,
- Middle post,
- New Post,
- Packet post,
- Painted Post,
- Parcel post,
- Pendant post,
- Penny post,
- Post Falls,
- Post and pair,
- Post and stall,
- Post bag,
- Post bill,
- Post card,
- Post chaise,
- Post coach,
- Post day,
- Post hackney,
- Post hanger,
- Post hole,
- Post horn,
- Post horse,
- Post hour,
- Post mill,
- Post note,
- Post office,
- Post road,
- Post route,
- Post town,
- Post, TX,
- Posting house,
- Powder post,
- Quoin post,
- Samson post,
- Side posts,
- Snub post,
- Snubbing post,
- Sound post,
- Sounding post,
- Starting post,
- Story post,
- Tackle post,
- To ride post,
- To travel post,
- Totem post,
- Warping post,
- Whipping post,
- Winning post,
- command post,
- corner post,
- deaf as a post,
- emily post,
- goal post,
- hinging post,
- hitching post,
- king post,
- military post,
- missionary post,
- newel post,
- observation post,
- post and lintel,
- post doc,
- post exchange,
- post hoc,
- post house,
- post meridiem,
- post oak,
- post-it,
- poste restante,
- queen post,
- registered post,
- shutting post,
- swinging post,
- telegraph post,
- trading post,
- wiley post,
- Crown-post,
- Ex post facto,
- Iron Post, OK,
- King-post,
- Lamp-post,
- New Post, WI,
- Painted Post, NY,
- Post Falls, ID,
- Post-abdomen,
- Post-captain,
- Post-disseizin,
- Post-disseizor,
- Post-fine,
- Post-impressionism,
- Post-it note,
- Post-mortem,
- Post-obit,
- Post-temporal,
- Post-tragus,
- Post-tympanic,
- Powder-posted,
- Queen-post,
- Tool-post,
- c. w. post,
- charles william post,
- emily price post,
- local post office,
- meteorological observation post,
- post-communist,
- post-free,
- post-haste,
- post-horse,
- post-impressionist,
- post-maturity,
- post-menopause,
- post-paid,
- us post office,
- Ex post facto law,
- Post Oak Bend City,
- Post-mortem examination,
- Post-obit bond,
- post-hole digger,
- post-office box,
- post-rotational nystagmus,
- powder-post termite,
- united states post office,
- Post Oak Bend City, TX,
- post hoc ergo propter hoc,
- post-office box number