† ˈpostic, a. Obs.
[ad. L. postīcus hinder, posterior, f. post behind; cf. antīcus antic, antique.]
Hinder, posterior, ‘back’.
| a 1638 Mede Wks. (1672) 237 The lowest and most postick members of all. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xvii. (1686) 116 The postick and backward position of the feminine parts in quadrupedes. 1664 Butler Hud. ii. i. 208 A Saxon Duke did grow so fat, That Mice..Eat Grots and Labyrinths to dwell in His postick parts without his feeling. |
So ˈpostical a. rare.
| 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 471* Two doors; one an outward door, the other postical or inward. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 666/1 Postical, relating to or belonging to the back or lower part of a leaf or stem. 1965 F. E. Round Introd. Lower Plants viii. 105 Branching may occur at the apex or it may be intercalary. In the former, new three-sided apical cells are formed by cleavage in the leaf of initial cells—usually in the ventral half, thus eliminating the ventral (i.e. postical) lobe of the leaf. |