post off
English
Verb
post off (third-person singular simple present posts off, present participle posting off, simple past and past participle posted off)
- To send away through the postal service; to mail.
- (archaic) To put off; to delay.
- 1658, Richard Baxter, Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live
- Why did I, venturously, post off so great a business?
- 1658, Richard Baxter, Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for post off under post in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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