postea (1310)

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postea (1310)

[ gdw]

[ FEW: 9,241b postea; Gdf: ; GdfC: ; TL: ; DEAF: ; DMF: ; TLF: ; OED:  postea n.; MED: ; DMLBS: 2362c postea ]
 
Latin

This rare nominalized use of the Latin adverb appears in English only from the late sixteenth-century, and is unattested in Continental French or medieval Latin.

s.

1lawpostea, record of trial proceedings and verdict
( 1310 )  L’atturné: ‘Sire, jeo suy nul bille, qar jeo bailla a mon mestre’ – Hervy: ‘Qei voudriez vous adonqe?’ – L’atturné: ‘Sire, jeo prie un postea’  Ed II iv 195
( 1341 )  Et il continua cele suyte en roulle par posteas  15 Ed III 45
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