"post off" meaning in English

See post off in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: posts off [present, singular, third-person], posting off [participle, present], posted off [participle, past], posted off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} post off (third-person singular simple present posts off, present participle posting off, simple past and past participle posted off)
  1. To send away through the postal service; to mail.
    Sense id: en-post_off-en-verb-sSIFLyY7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52
  2. (archaic, Early Modern) To put off; to delay. Tags: Early, Modern, archaic
    Sense id: en-post_off-en-verb-a7kcSl8T Categories (other): Early Modern English, English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (off) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (off): 40 60

Download JSON data for post off meaning in English (2.4kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "posts off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "posting off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "posted off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "posted off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "post off (third-person singular simple present posts off, present participle posting off, simple past and past participle posted off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "48 52",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To send away through the postal service; to mail."
      ],
      "id": "en-post_off-en-verb-sSIFLyY7",
      "links": [
        [
          "mail",
          "mail"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Early Modern English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "48 52",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "40 60",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1608 June 12, Thomas Hopkins, Two Sermons Vpon the XII. Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrewes […], published 1609, page 63",
          "text": "A second vse hence we should make, is for reproofe of many, who post off the time of the Lords offer, till age, sicknes, death: of these there are specially two sorts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1641 February 6, John Marston, A Sermon Preached at St. Margaretts in VVestminster […], published 1642, page 26",
          "text": "[…] let me inferr further, that this late repentance must needs be very dangerous, when as repentance at the best, withall advantages of life, is a worke of the greatest difficulty; why then should we post off that to the last minute, for which all our life is to little?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1658, Richard Baxter, Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live",
          "text": "Why did I, venturously, post off so great a business?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put off; to delay."
      ],
      "id": "en-post_off-en-verb-a7kcSl8T",
      "links": [
        [
          "put off",
          "put off"
        ],
        [
          "delay",
          "delay"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, Early Modern) To put off; to delay."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Early",
        "Modern",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "post off"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "posts off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "posting off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "posted off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "posted off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "post off (third-person singular simple present posts off, present participle posting off, simple past and past participle posted off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To send away through the postal service; to mail."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mail",
          "mail"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Early Modern English",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1608 June 12, Thomas Hopkins, Two Sermons Vpon the XII. Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrewes […], published 1609, page 63",
          "text": "A second vse hence we should make, is for reproofe of many, who post off the time of the Lords offer, till age, sicknes, death: of these there are specially two sorts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1641 February 6, John Marston, A Sermon Preached at St. Margaretts in VVestminster […], published 1642, page 26",
          "text": "[…] let me inferr further, that this late repentance must needs be very dangerous, when as repentance at the best, withall advantages of life, is a worke of the greatest difficulty; why then should we post off that to the last minute, for which all our life is to little?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1658, Richard Baxter, Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live",
          "text": "Why did I, venturously, post off so great a business?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put off; to delay."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "put off",
          "put off"
        ],
        [
          "delay",
          "delay"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, Early Modern) To put off; to delay."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Early",
        "Modern",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "post off"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.