† post aˈlone, adv. Obs.
[f. post n.1 + alone. (app. = standing alone like a post.)]
Entirely or quite alone. (Very common in 16th c.)
| 1514 Q. Mary of France Let. Hen. VIII in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. I. 116 Now am I left post a lone in effect. a 1533 Frith Answ. More (1548) F j, I dare not lett him stonde post alone, least ye dispise him. 1543 Grafton Contn. Harding 454 Kyng Henry taryed poste alone in the bishoppes paleyce besyde Powles. 1567 Golding Ovid's Met. viii. (1593) 187 He left her post alone Upon the shore. 1619 Hieron Wks. I. 28 To be in a manner poast alone, like a pellican in the wildernesse, or as an owle in the desart. |