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It is for this reason that the word “post” comes from the Latin positus, meaning “fixed,” or “placed.”

The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

Ventris abstruso positus cubili senseras regem thalamo manentem, hinc parens nati meritis uterque abdita pandit.

Archive 2008-06-01 bls 2008

It it tempting, and plausible, to suppose that the implicit reasoning goes something like this: “Composite” (com + positus = “put together”) things don't just happen to be composite; something put them together.

Binarium Famosissimum Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

☿ Quoties alicujus genitura in ♏ et ♓ adverso signo positus, horoscopum partiliter tenueret atque etiam a

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Hanc ad intemperantiam gignendam plurimum confert ♂ et ♄ positus, &c. 1287.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Erátque solariolum vnum, de tabulis altè præparatum, vbi thronus Imperatoris erat positus, ex ebore mirabiliter sculptus, in quo etiam erat aurum, et lapides preciosi, si bene meminimus, et illuc ascendebatur per gradus.

The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

In loco illo, vbi positus est Imperator in throno, vocati fuimus coram ipso.

The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

In terra prædictorum Karakytaorum Occoday Cham, filius Chingischam, postquam imperator fuit positus, quandam ciuitatem ædificauit, quam Chanyl appellauit.

The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

& Zieglero annotatum est, sed inter meridiem & orientem positus sit.

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

Inde Babyloniam (vt aiunt) ductus, cum Christum abnegare nollet, in medio foro ad signum positus, et sagittis terebratus, martyrium consecrauit.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003