Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In law, entry upon the record of a court, stating the proceedings at the trial.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Law) The return of the judge before whom a cause was tried, after a verdict, of what was done in the cause, which is indorsed on the nisi prius record.

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  • noun law The return of the judge before whom a cause was tried, after a verdict, of what was done in the cause, which is endorsed on the nisi prius record.

Etymologies

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Latin, after these or those (things), afterward.

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Examples

  • “De Cretensibus accepimus, quod in amore puerorum intemperantes fuerunt, quod postea in Lacones et in totam Græciam translatum est.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Modo in pressura, in tentationibus, erit postea bonum tuum requies, aeternitas, immortalitas.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • “Utrumne sit mihi aliqua vita post mortem, an nihil omnino postea sim futurus.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Note 118: Canon, 1.3.1, fol. 65vb: "Deinde fiat ut in primis super ventrem sui iaceat, postea supra dorsum, et preter hoc totum incessanter fricetur et prematur, et figuretur: deinde ad ipsum cum panno fasciandum est redeundum." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • “Quumque Hierosolymam accessisset, et ibidem aliquandiu mansisset, pontificis filiam ducere in animum induxisse, et eam ob rem proselytum factum, atque circumcisum esse; postea quod virginem eam non accepisset, succensuisse, et adversus circumcisionem, ac sabbathum totamque legem scripsisse.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Ut solent hirundines et ranae prae frigoris magnitudine mori, et postea redeunte vere 24.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Humores corruptos qui aliter a natura concoqui et domari possint, et demum blande excludi, irritat, et quasi in furorem agit, qui postea mota camerina, tetro vapore corpus varie lacessunt, animumque.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Fecit omnia delicta quae fieri possunt circa res sex non naturales, et eae fuerunt causae extrinsecae, ex quibus postea ortae sunt obstructiones.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Bello victus, per tres dies sedit in prora navis, abstinens ab omni consortio, etiam Cleopatiae, postea se interfecit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Deos appellant qui ex hominum numero juste ac prudenter vitae curriculo gubernato, pro numine, postea ab hominibus praediti fanis et ceremoniis vulgo admittuntur, ut in

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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