postingn.1
/ˈpəʊstɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpoʊstɪŋ/ 1. The action of fitting or providing something with posts; (also) the posts provided, posts collectively. Formerly also: †an individual post.
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1295 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 5/8 Iij s. in postinges faciendis et Creppinges abcidendis ad taskam.
1359 in Pipe Roll 30 Edward III m.39d Merem. pro yostying [read postying].
1422–3 in T. D. Whitaker Hist. Parish of Whalley (1872) 351 (MED) Pro successione maremii in bosco et postyngs ejusdem.
1842 T. A. Morris Let. 13 Jan. in Misc. (1854) iii. xii. 333 Where the pine begins to fail, the red cedar comes in, affording abundance of the best timber for shingles, posting and railing, and even lumber for barns and houses.
1915 Indianapolis Sunday Star 25 Apr. 26/4 Carbo steel fence posting systems are in big demand because of their economy and durability.
1939 B. L. Coombes These Poor Hands vi. 82 The ribs of the coal were cut perfectly straight and strong, well-built walls made a deal of posting unnecessary.
2003 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 31 Mar. 2 He had been working in the garden..using a drill to erect fence posting when he hit an underground electric cable.
2.
a. The action of putting up a notice on a post, wall, etc., or of making anything public by this or similar means; public advertisement by posters; (also) an advertisement.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publishing or spreading by leaflets or notices > [noun] > placarding, postering, or billing
affixment1639
posting1656
affixion1760
placarding1800
screening1806
bill-sticking1851
paperhanging1851
bill-posting1869
billing1875
fly-posting1903
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xl. 82 The very night after the posting up [It. affissione] of this defiance.
1701–3 (title of MS) A Book of Postings and Sale of the Forfeited and other Estates and Interests in Ireland.
1816 Jrnl. Cork. Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. (1901) 7 152 I believe he followed the posting by striking him.
1850 H. Martineau Introd. Hist. Peace II. iv. ix. 412 The people would not permit the posting of notices of arrears.
1862 Boston Transcr. 22 Aug. 1/2 Is there no way of protection against the posting of bills about our city?
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 238/1 The Metropolitan Police Act 1939..first put a stop to unauthorized posting, and the Indecent Advertisements Act of 1889..penalized the public exposure of any picture [etc.].
1992 D. McClean Internat. Judicial Assistance 35 Notice was given..by ‘exploit’ of a huissier acting for the appellant and a copy posted at the door of the courthouse... Service of the notice of appeal was validly completed by the posting of the notice.
b. Computing. A message displayed on a mailing list, newsgroup, or other online forum to which it has been sent. Also: the action of sending such a message.This sense shows the influence of posting n.2 Cf. post v.2
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1981 Fa.works in fa.apollo (Usenet newsgroup) 18 June Posting on fa.works will be read by all you usenet people and not the people who seem to be contributing all the info.
1984 Data Communications (Nexis) Sept. 278 Usenet consists of more than 190 categories with postings from more than 850 Unix sites worldwide.
1992 N.Y. Times 1 Dec. c14/4 Nancy Baym..is writing her dissertation on the 35,000 soap-opera postings she has tracked on Usenet.
1997 J. Seabrook Deeper iv. 117 Although the cat lovers could in theory ‘killfile’ the miscreants after their first posting.., the shocking words tended to linger in your head.
2002 Entertainm. Weekly 18 Jan. 50/2 He also has to feed the beast—his ardent fans—with regular postings on his website.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action of mooring > to a post
posting1868
1868 Exeter & Plymouth Gaz. 12 Mar. Paying a small sum to the owner for ‘posting’—that was for tying up the vessels to a post.
Compounds
C1. General attributive (in sense 2a), as posting-board, posting-business; (in sense 3), as †posting-dues.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > shipping dues > [noun]
lastinglOE
lastage1205
anchorage1405
strandage1419
plankage1424
quayage1440
lowage1457
measurage1460
perch money1466
perching1483
keel-toll?1499
wharf-gelt1505
sand-gelt1527
wharfage1535
soundage1562
towage1562
groundage1567
bankage1587
rowage1589
shore-silver1589
pilotage1591
dayage1592
ballastage1594
rivage1598
pieragec1599
shore-mail1603
lightage1606
shorage1611
port charge1638
light money1663
port due1663
water-bailage1669
mensuragea1676
mooragea1676
keelage1679
shore-due1692
harbour-due1718
lockage1722
magazinage1736
jettage?1737
light duty1752
tide-duty1769
port duty1776
dockage1788
light due1793
canalage1812
posting-dues1838
warpage1863
winch1864
postage1868
flag-dues1892
berthage1893
shore-levy-
1838 Actors by Daylight 1 182 A pair or two of wooden posting-boards.
1868 Exeter & Plymouth Gaz. 12 Mar. He paid posting dues twenty-six years ago to Mr. Chapple, but not since. Harbour dues were paid to Mr. Chanter, Lord of the Manor of Northam.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Jan. 3/1 It is now ten years ago since the picture posting business was first reduced not only to an art but almost to a science.
1892 Times 3 Dec. 12/4 The London County Council and other governing bodies are harassing and worrying the bill-posting business.
1990 Monumenta Nipponica 45 327 The Ministry of Ceremonial puts up the posting-board of ranks for the Heir Apparent.
posting bill n. a placard, notice; = poster n.2 2. Obsolete.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publishing or spreading by leaflets or notices > [noun] > placarding, postering, or billing > a placard, notice, or bill
bill1480
placard1560
ticket1567
pancart1577
affix1589
si quis1597
affiche1602
placketa1605
programme1633
programmaa1661
advertisement1692
clap-bill1699
handbill1718
daybill1731
show bill?a1750
notice1766
play-card1778
card1787
posting bill1788
poster1818
sticker1862
flyer1889
paper1896
1788 W. Bates Harlequin Mungo 17 The servants enter, and pursue Harlequin round the stage, who leaps through a posting bill on the warehouse.
1802 Naval Chron. 8 436 Posting bills have been put up.., offering a bounty.
1893 Times 26 Aug. 13/5 The public has some right to complain that an expensive scientific establishment..should be wasting its energies on printing posting bills.
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postingn.2
/ˈpəʊstɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpoʊstɪŋ/ The action of post v.2 (in various senses).
I. In senses relating to sending something speedily, or to travelling post.† 2. Speedy travelling; hastening, haste, hurry. Obsolete.
1. † a. The dispatching of letters, etc., by a messenger riding post. Obsolete.Recorded earliest in posting charge at Compounds 1a.† b. Travelling by means of relays of horses; the cost of this. Obsolete.
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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > types of service > conveyance of mail by land or sea > by post-rider or coach
flying post1548
posting1556
postage1566
dāk1727
pony express1847
pony post1892
1556 W. Paget Let. Apr. in Camden Misc. (1974) XXV. 115 Item he asketh allowaunce for posting charges for myself and a guyde with xxvt servauntes outward and homwarde..cxxvj li xj s x d.
c1559 R. Hall Life Fisher lf. 42 b Then wanted no posting of letters betweene ye kinge and ye ambassadors.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiii. 817/1 Betwixt whom were such posting of letters, such speeding to and fro.
1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 157 They [sc. persons] will be prompt, and fit for posting.
1681 C. Cotton Wonders of Peake 33 Till Eccho, tir'd with posting, does refuse To carry to th'inquisitive Perdu's..the trembling news.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by relays of horses or vehicles > [noun] > travelling by means of post-horses
postage1603
posting1756
1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) i. 12 The horses are very good, and what they use for posting are..mostly bays.
1790 C. M. Graham Lett. Educ. 141 Posting on the continent is now so much the fashion, as often to oblige a man of fortune to repeat his tour, in order to gratify his family.
1814 J. Austen Let. 14 June (1995) 263 I must give up all help from his Carriage of course... I have been thinking of Triggs and the Chair.., but I know it will end in Posting.
a1817 J. Austen Watsons in Wks. (1954) VI. 349 Robert was..more intent on settling with the Post-Boy, inveighing against the Exorbitant advance in Posting..than on welcoming a Sister.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) x. 99 ‘Expensive affair,’ said Mr. Jingle. ‘Money out of pocket—posting, nine pounds; licence, three—that's twelve.’
c. The keeping of post-horses and post vehicles, either for the delivery of mail or for the use of ordinary travellers; (hence) the business of keeping horses, carriages, etc., for hire. Now historical and rare.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by relays of horses or vehicles > [noun] > travelling by means of post-horses > keeping post-horses or -vehicles
posting1840
1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 459/2 Posting continues in most countries to be carried on by the state, which retains the monopoly of supplying post-horses, and..of forwarding mails and diligences.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 460/2 The great superiority of English over foreign posting [shows] that..open competition in this trade is preferable to a government monopoly and control.
1864 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? I. xxxviii. 295 Shap had been a place owing all such life as it possessed to coaching and posting.
1910 Bradshaw's Railway Guide 1037/2 Commercial Hotel... Livery and Bait Stables. Posting. Motor Garage.
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society > travel > [noun] > speedy
posting1589
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > urgent > moving with urgent speed
hastingc1300
posting1589
1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxx. 133 I say, that Beautie beggeth if by posting it be got.
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 12 Whereat the fearefull maide in posting flung..Into a secret caue.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets li. sig. D3v From where thou art, why shoulld I hast me thence, Till I returne of posting is noe need. View more context for this quotation
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 500 All the Gold of the Kingdome, is daily Transported away with superfluous posting for Court.
3.
a. The action or process of sending something by or through the post, conveyance by post; esp. the putting of a letter, etc., into the charge of the post office, or into a post office letter box.
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society > communication > correspondence > sending items > [noun]
posting1843
mailing1853
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) vii. 84 For the convenience of posting, you had better make it [sc. money loaned] gold... A general direction..to Mr. Pinch at Mr. Pecksniff's will that find you?
1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant I. v. 176 [He] showed her the way to the post-office, and gave her..information as to the hours of posting.
1884 Act 47 & 48 Vict. c. 76 §19. (2) The due posting of a postal packet.
1900 Daily News 13 June 6/7 Late fee posting at pillar-boxes..is to be withdrawn on the 18th inst.
1924 Times 19 Nov. 10/5 The British Exchequer would no longer lose the many thousands of pounds..through the carelessness of our own people in not weighing letters before posting.
1992 Child Protection Law (BNC) 50 Documents served by post are deemed to be served on the second business day after posting.
b. In plural. A quantity of mail posted at one time; the amount of mail posted during a given period.
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society > communication > correspondence > letter > mail > [noun] > posted during a period
postings1909
1909 Daily Chron. 30 Dec. 3/6 During the Christmas week of last year the postings in London alone totalled upwards of 70,000,000.
1942 Times 3 Jan. 5/4 Few deliveries at City Offices arrived before 11.30 a.m. and contained only a very small proportion of pre-Christmas postings.
1971 D. Potter Brit. Elizabethan Stamps i. 14 Beginning with the Shakespeare set in 1964, special envelopes were..used. Stratford-on-Avon must have had one of their heaviest postings ever.
2000 This is Bradford (Nexis) 7 Dec. During the week before Christmas, postings are likely to be around 100 million items each day, compared to an average working day at any other time of the year of 80 million items.
II. In senses related to handing over or transferral.† 4. The transferring (of responsibility, etc.) to another person; a passing on of guilt or culpability. Also with off, over. Obsolete.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > [noun] > transferring obligations to another
posting1571
buck-passing1933
1571 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 121 Swa Mortone, be fortone, May get this same reward: His boasting, nor posting, I doe it not reguard.
a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1866) II. 236 There will be such a posting off of sin, that never a one will be found guilty.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. v. 18 Manifested by deed of indenture or posting ouer of the charge to another.
a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 320 A shamelesse excusing of euill, with a posting it ouer vnto God.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 500 Now leauing Prodigalls to their Purgatoriall Postings.
5. Accounting and Bookkeeping. The carrying over of an entry from a journal to a ledger; the formal entry of an item in a record of accounts; the bringing of an accounts book (or file, database, etc.) up to date.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > book-keeping > specific processes
posting1682
journalizing1796
accrual1910
statementing1981
add-back1989
1682 J. Scarlett Stile of Exchanges 38 In the posting of the same into his great Book, or Leidger, the Forreign Coynes must be duely exprest.
1849 J. H. Freese Commerc. Class-bk. 111 In order to prove the correctness of the Postings to the Ledger.
1850 Plan for Ch. Hist. Soc. 9 What they chiefly want is what..commercial men call ‘posting up’.
1972 Accountant 6 Apr. 435/1 I'd had one year's experience thrice repeated, limited largely to tots, debtor's balances and postings.
1990 Accountancy Mar. 146/1 Postings can be made to previous periods or years, subject to security, as well as periods in the future.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. In sense 1, as posting carriage, posting charge, posting inn, etc.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > stagecoach or mail coach
posting carriage1556
wagon1615
post-coach1636
stagecoach1658
flying coach1669
stage1671
wagon-coach1675
stage-wagon1681
post-car1694
post-wagon1694
post calash1703
fly1708
post-carriage1720
post-stage1738
diligence1742
flying machine1764
machine1769
mail coach1785
dilly1786
mail stage1792
high-flyer1799
post-equipage1813
post vehicle1815
tally-ho coach1831
mail packeta1837
flying carriage1849
stager1852
mail-hack1909
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc.
schooleOE
hospitalc1300
khanc1400
xenodochy?c1550
posting inn1556
vent1577
caravanserai1585
yam1587
serai1609
venta1610
post-house1611
xenodochium1612
imaret1613
seraglio1617
rancho1648
hospitium1650
watering-house1664
choultry1698
accommodation house1787
stage-house1788
spital1794
stand1805
resthouse1807
hospice1818
resting1879
stopping house1883
truck stop1961
1556Posting charge [see sense 1a].
1793 T. Pennant Lit. Life 121 I have a respect for the plan of the mail-coaches, and for the inventors; but I never could think of applying to him as the..regulator of the posting-empire.
1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. II. 54 There is no posting inn, in the place! and only one chaise kept for hire.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 210 The Winglebury arms..is the principal inn of Great Winglebury—the commercial inn, posting-house, and excise-office.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xx. 256 They had a posting carriage at the porch.
1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xlvi. 232 I think the best posting-house at this end of the town is Tempett's.
1899 A. H. Sayce Early Israel v. 160 Carriage roads were constructed with posting inns at intervals along them.
1913 A. Dobson Coll. Poems 23 Wherever Purity found abode, 'Twas certainly not on a posting road.
1931 E. Bliss Saraband i. 75 It had once been a posting inn; a hundred years ago people had stopped to change their horses here on the way to London.
1991 National Trust Mag. Spring 50/1 (advt.) 16th Century Posting House, with real log fires, friendly atmosphere.
2003 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 10 Aug. 1 Cheap wine and mass-produced beer are a no-no in the 19th Century former posting inn, run by Suffolk brewer Adnams.
b. In sense 3, as posting box, posting clerk, etc.
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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > equipment for sending or delivering mail > [noun] > post- or letter-box
letterbox1727
post1785
box1825
mailbox1885
posting box1886
postbox1954
1886 Times 23 Apr. 5 A private posting box is defined to be a letter box constructed on private premises at the expense of private persons.
1895 Daily News 31 May 3/6 The branch and sub-offices at which the posting boxes are continuously open.
1897 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 19 Mar. 8/1 Posting clerk's report at polling places.
1934 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 29 May 5/2 Purchase clerk, Marjorie Sievwright; posting clerk, Gertrude Goldman; office boy, Thorwald Olsen.
1994 Stamp Mag. Nov. 71/1 Other ideas included Post Office transport, uniforms and posting boxes.
2001 S. Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 14 Dec. 5 Swansea Airport has become a special posting centre for children sending their Christmas lists to Santa.
C2. † posting belt n. Obsolete a broad (usually leather) belt worn by postilions or post-boys.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > belt or sash > types of > worn by specific people
abnet1602
bride belt1606
posting belt1737
obi1872
waist-torque1891
1737 Med. Ess. & Observ. (Philos. Soc. Edinb.) IV. 61 Our Patient..was desired to wear a posting Belt, with proper Compresses upon the Place where the Wound had been, for some time,..that upon any violent Motion a Hernia might be prevented.
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† postingn.3
Scottish. Obsolete.
The action or operation of trampling, beating, or pounding laundry in water. Cf. possing n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > trampling or kneading
posting1825
1825 R. A. Armstrong Gaelic Dict. at Postadh The Highland women put them in a tub,..then, with petticoats tucked up..commence the operation of posting.
1896 N. Munro Lost Pibroch 71 A white blanket that needs no posting.
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postingn.4
/ˈpəʊstɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpoʊstɪŋ/ 1. The action or fact of positioning a person, esp. a member of the armed forces, as a sentry, guard, picket, etc.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun] > for a duty or purpose
embassy1549
ambassy1625
posting1847
stationing?1850
ambassadry1880
1847 Man. & Platoon Exercises for Percussion Carbines 59 In marching reliefs and posting of sentinels the following mode is to be invariably adopted.
1853 Infantry Man. (ed. 2) 99 The posting of a piquet.
1899 Dict. National Biogr. LIX. 36/1 These ordinances embraced the watching of hostelries, the posting of sergeants..at the gates..and the..ringing of curfew.
1923 A. G. Gardiner Life of Sir William Harcourt xxii. 425 The Opposition leader passed on to another and apparently equally distasteful branch of the cross-examination—that relating to the posting of troops on the Transvaal border.
1997 Time Out 10 Sept. 51/4 After a symbolic handing-over of the Palace keys, the posting of sentries and other military formalities, the Old Guard departs for the barracks.
2.
a. Military. The appointment of an officer to a post or command, esp. to one in a different location; a command, situation, etc., to which an officer is appointed; (also) the location or duration of such an appointment.In quot. 1957: the document authorizing an appointment.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > military position > [noun] > appointing to post
posting1880
1880 Gen. Adye in 19th Cent. 701 There are palpable defects and anomalies in the Staff Corps arrangements as regards the posting of the regimental officers.
1955 Times 16 Aug. 4/6 The present husband was prepared to give up his lucrative post to re-enter the American Air Force and try to get a posting back to this country.
1957 ‘N. Shute’ On Beach i. 9 The Admiral's got your posting on his desk.
1976 New Yorker 9 Feb. 107/1 Thus his war service was an untidy mess of postings and cross-postings back and forth between units that wished to be rid of him.
1992 M. Urban Big Boys' Rules ix. 89 During the posting he was involved in a riot when constables were ordered to remove an Irish tricolour from the window of a Sinn Fein election candidate's shop.
2002 Lincs. Echo (Nexis) 19 Nov. 29 For the British National Servicemen of 1953, Libya had to be one of the most attractive postings, and whenever you could find a way of getting out of duties and exercises, the beach..was the place to be.
b. The appointment or deployment of an employee, esp. in Government service; the position to which a person is appointed; (also) the location of an appointment abroad.
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1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate i. 7 His colleagues at this posting seemed a bit intense and know-all.
1977 Daily Mail 23 Aug. 26/4 (advt.) This is an immediate posting for person aged 21–30 years with excellent secretarial skills.
1980 G. Lord Fortress i. 11 When she had received her posting from the Department, her first impulse had been to resign.
1991 Newsweek 28 Jan. 56/2 On July 25 Saddam called Ambassador Glaspie to his palace, her first meeting since her posting two years before.
2004 Times of India (Nexis) 22 Apr. While some suggest that he took on the job just because he couldn't say no to Mayawati, others believe that Lucknow being a plum posting proved too much of a temptation for him.
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postingadj.
/ˈpəʊstɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpoʊstɪŋ/ That posts; swift, speedy, rapid; hasty, hurrying, fleeting. Now poetic and rare.Recorded earliest in posting sweat n. at Compounds.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adjective]
hiefulc1230
hastyc1330
swift1340
graithfula1400
yedera1400
short1480
speedy1529
expedite1540
quick1548
postingc1553
hasting1566
rushing1694
nimble1707
presto1767
presto change1835
quick-action1887
presto changeo1923
knife-edge1969
light speed1987
c1553 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. vii. 72 The posting sweat, that posted from town to town thorow England, and was named ‘stop-gallant’.
1575 R. B. Apius & Virginia sig. Di With posting speede, to Court I do repaire.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 10 Neither did we run ouer the worke with that posting haste that the Septuagint did.
1642 J. Gauden 3 Serm. 26 A few posting and perfunctory prayers.
1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 462 This only object of my real care,..In some few posting fatal hours is hurled From wealth.
1792 H. Brooke Poet. Wks. (ed. 3) II. i. 142 Strait where they lay, each chieftain he invites; Now mild requires, and now by mandate cites: Dispatch'd around his posting envoys fly, And prayers are mix'd with counsels to comply.
1801 W. H. Ireland Rom. Patriot i. ii. 14 For love, I'd hie me swifter than the posting wind.
a1876 T. Aird Poet. Wks. (1878) 424 Heroic daring from each limb breathed; as the posting winds Fleet, o'er the hills so high and bright he chased the dappled hinds.
1929 A. T. Quiller-Couch Poems 48 We cannot blunt th' abhorrèd shears, Nor shift the skeins of Fate, Nor say unto the posting years ‘Ye shall not desolate.’
Compounds
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1891 C. Creighton Hist. Epidemics Brit. I. 276 Like dengue, influenza, and others of the ‘posting’ fevers of former time.
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c1553Posting sweat [see main sense].
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