Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
post (upright stake).
Etymologies
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post + -like
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Examples
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In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries we notice the first traces of an organized service for transmission of news and letters in the messengers of monasteries, the universities, and the various spiritual dignitaries; in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries we have advanced to a comprehensive, almost postlike, organization of local messenger bureaus for the epistolary intercourse of traders and of municipal authorities.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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Then, throwing back his mattress, he placed the postlike affair beneath it and lashed it firmly to the springs.
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