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English
Etymology
From Latin postpositus, past participle. See postpone.
Pronunciation
Verb
postposit (third-person singular simple present postposits, present participle postpositing, simple past and past participle postposited)
- (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.
References
“postposit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.