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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: post-communion - posthypnotic</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="postcommunion"> post-communion, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun the prayer or prayers said at the end of the Communion service. <DD>adj. following the Communion service. Ex. a post-communion address or hymn. </DL> <A NAME="postconciliar"> postconciliar, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> existing or occurring after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962-1965. </DL> <A NAME="postconsonantal"> postconsonantal, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> following immediately after a consonant. </DL> <A NAME="postcost"> post-cost, transitive verb, intransitive verb, -cost, -costing.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) to review prices and costs in (government contracts) retrospectively. </DL> <A NAME="postdate"> postdate, transitive verb, -dated, -dating.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to give a later date than the true date to (a letter, check, document, or publication). Ex. Many of the Berlin newspapers which are published in the evening are postdated by a day (Charles Lowe). <DD> 2. to follow in time. </DL> <A NAME="postdeb"> postdeb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a postdebutante. </DL> <A NAME="postdebutante"> postdebutante, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a girl who is past her first formal appearance, in society. </DL> <A NAME="postdiluvian"> post-diluvian, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. existing or occurring after the Flood. <DD>noun a person who has lived since the Flood. </DL> <A NAME="postdoctoral"> postdoctoral, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. having to do with advanced academic work after the doctorate. Ex. postdoctoral fellowships, postdoctoral research. <DD>noun =postdoctorate. </DL> <A NAME="postdoctorate"> postdoctorate, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. =postdoctoral. Ex. Specialization requires two to five years in formal postdoctorate training (T. B. Eveleth). <DD>noun a person who does postdoctoral work. Ex. About half of our scientists are graduate students and young postdoctorates (Max Perutz). </DL> <A NAME="postedprice"> posted price,<DL COMPACT><DD> the price a seller declares for something, such as that set on a barrel of crude oil by an oil-producing country. Ex. Nigeria and Venezuela ... raised posted prices (a theoretical base figure for taxes that influences the actual selling price) to more than $14 per bbl. (Time). </DL> <A NAME="postembryonic"> postembryonic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> following the embryonic stage of life or growth. </DL> <A NAME="poster"> poster (1), noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a large printed sheet or notice put up in some public place. Posters usually contain attractive pictures or designs to catch people's attention. <DD> 2. a person who posts notices. adj. posterlike. </DL> <A NAME="poster"> poster (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. =post horse. <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) a person who travels swiftly. </DL> <A NAME="posterboy"> poster boy,<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who is the perfect example of something; symbol. Ex. With the release of government documents spelling out the conflict-of-interest allegations ... Neil Bush replaced Charles Keating as the S&L poster boy (Time). </DL> <A NAME="posterestante"> poste restante,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a direction written on mail which is to remain at the post office till called for. <DD> 2. a post-office department in charge of such mail. </DL> <A NAME="posterior"> posterior, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. situated behind; back; rear; hind. Ex. The tail of an animal is on the posterior part of the body. <DD> 2. later; coming after. (SYN) subsequent, succeeding, following. <DD> 3. (Botany.) situated on the side nearest the axis; superior. <DD>noun Often, posteriors, the buttocks. Ex. He drops upon his knees or posteriors (Edward Ward). adv. posteriorly. </DL> <A NAME="posteriority"> posteriority, noun, pl. -ties.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the state or quality of being posterior. <DD> 2. a posterior position or date. </DL> <A NAME="posterish"> posterish, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> characteristic of or resembling a poster. Ex. posterish paintings. </DL> <A NAME="posterity"> posterity, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. generations of the future. Ex. If we burn up all the coal and oil in the world, what will posterity do? Posterity would remember him as the author of many fine poems (Atlantic). <DD> 2. anyone's children, and their children, and their children, and so on and on; all of a person's descendants. Ex. that the inheritance of the king should be to his posterity alone (Ecclesiasticus 45:25). (SYN) progeny. </DL> <A NAME="postern"> postern, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a back door or gate. Ex. We came through the postern at the rear of the great castle wall. <DD> 2. any small door or gate or private entrance. Ex. We slipped out of the side postern into a night of darkness (Robert Louis Stevenson). <DD>adj. 1. rear; lesser. Ex. The castle had a postern door. <DD> 2. of or like a postern. </DL> <A NAME="postexchange"> Post Exchange or post exchange,<DL COMPACT><DD> a general store at a military post that sells merchandise and services to military personnel and their dependents. (Abbr:) PX (no periods). </DL> <A NAME="postexilian"> postexilian, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> following the Babylonian exile or captivity of the Jews in the early 500's B.C. </DL> <A NAME="postexilic"> postexilic, adjective. =postexilian.</DL> <A NAME="postface"> postface, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an explanatory note following the body of a text; afterword. </DL> <A NAME="postfigurative"> postfigurative, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Anthropology.) of or designating a form of society in which the values of the adult or older generation predominate. </DL> <A NAME="postfix"> postfix, verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. to affix at the end of something; append; suffix. <DD>noun a word, syllable, or letter added to the end of a word; suffix. </DL> <A NAME="postformable"> postformable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can undergo postforming. Ex. postformable aluminum-polyethylene laminate. </DL> <A NAME="postforming"> postforming, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun the process of bending or shaping a partially hardened thermosetting laminate. <DD>adj. used for bending or shaping in this process. Ex. postforming treatment, a postforming table. </DL> <A NAME="postfree"> postfree, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. free from postage charge. <DD> 2. (Especially British.) with the postage prepaid; postpaid. </DL> <A NAME="postfrontal"> postfrontal, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. behind the forehead. <DD> 2. toward the rear of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum. </DL> <A NAME="postganglionic"> postganglionic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> lying within or behind a ganglion. A postganglionic neuron of the autonomic nervous system has its cell body in a ganglion, with its axon extending to an organ. </DL> <A NAME="postglacial"> postglacial, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> coming after the glacial period or ice age; Recent. </DL> <A NAME="postgrad"> postgrad, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) postgraduate. </DL> <A NAME="postgraduate"> postgraduate, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a student who continues studying in college or at school after graduation; graduate student. <DD>adj. 1. taking a course of study after graduation. <DD> 2. of or for postgraduates. Ex. postgraduate medical study. </DL> <A NAME="posth"> posth.,<DL COMPACT><DD> posthumous. </DL> <A NAME="posthaste"> posthaste, adverb, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adv. very speedily; in great haste. Ex. This ... brought Mr. Beaulieu Plummer posthaste from the estate office up to the house (H. G. Wells). <DD>adj. (Archaic.) done in great haste; very speedy. Ex. The Duke ... requires your haste, post-haste appearance, even on the instant (Shakespeare). <DD>noun (Archaic.) haste or speed like that of a messenger; great speed. Ex. Norfolk and myself, In haste, post-haste, are come to join with you (Shakespeare). </DL> <A NAME="posthoc"> post hoc,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) after this; subsequent. Ex. Though all this has been post hoc to the formation of CND, it is of course by no means certain that it has been in any way propter hoc (Punch). </DL> <A NAME="posthoc,ergopropterhoc"> post hoc, ergo propter hoc,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) after this, therefore as a result of this (a phrase used to denote a common logical fallacy that what comes before an event must also be its cause). Ex. But no cancer-causing agent was known in tobacco smoke, so medical researchers were careful not to fall into the arguing post hoc, ergo propter hoc (Time). </DL> <A NAME="posthole"> posthole, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a hole dug in the ground to receive the end of a post. </DL> <A NAME="posthorn"> posthorn, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small horn similar to a bugle, formerly used by a postrider or the guard of a mail coach to announce arrival. </DL> <A NAME="posthorse"> post horse,<DL COMPACT><DD> a horse used by persons riding post or hired by travelers. </DL> <A NAME="posthouse"> posthouse, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (formerly) a house where relays of post horses were kept for the convenience of travelers. </DL> <A NAME="posthumous"> posthumous, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. happening after death. Ex. posthumous fame. <DD> 2. published after the death of the author. Ex. a posthumous book. <DD> 3. born after the death of the father. Ex. a posthumous child. adv. posthumously. noun posthumousness. </DL> <A NAME="posthypnotic"> posthypnotic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. after hypnosis. Ex. a posthypnotic trance. <DD> 2. intended to be carried out after the subject has emerged from hypnosis. Ex. Scientists used posthypnotic suggestion to induce people to ... dream about certain subjects (Morris Fishbein). adv. posthypnotically. </DL> <A HREF="postiche.dic">NEXT</A>