- To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills.
- To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.On pain of being posted to your sorrow Fail not, at four, to meet me.
- To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.
- To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant, . . . or to get himposted.
- BookkeepingTo carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.You have not posted your books these ten years.
- To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.
- To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up.Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day.
