† postˈferment nonce-wd.
[f. post- A, after preferment.]
Removal to an inferior office; the opposite of preferment.
| a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Durham (1662) i. 294/2 Alex. Nevil..Arch-Bishop of York..was translated..to St. Andrews... This his translation was a Post-Ferment, seeing the Arch-Bishoprick of St. Andrews was subjected in that age unto York. |