[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

post \post\, v. t. imp.  p. p. posted; p. pr.  vb. n.
   posting.
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

   note: formerly, a large post was erected before the sheriff's
         office, or in some public place, upon which legal
         notices were displayed. this way of advertisement has
         not entirely gone of use.
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   2. to hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise
      opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to
      post one for cowardice.
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            on pain of being posted to your sorrow
            fail not, at four, to meet me.        --granville.
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   3. to enter a name on a list, as for service, promotion, or
      the like.
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   4. 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 him posted." --de quincey.
      1913 webster

   5. bookkeeping to carry, as an account, from the journal to
      the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as
      accounts, to the ledger.
      1913 webster

            you have not posted your books these ten years.
                                                  --arbuthnot.
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   6. to place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a
      letter.
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   7. to inform; to give the news to; to make one acquainted
      with the details of a subject; -- often with up.
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            thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature
            of the day.                           --lond. sat.
                                                  rev.
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   to post off, to put off; to delay. obs. "why did i,
      venturously, post off so great a business?" --baxter.

   to post over, to hurry over. obs. --fuller.
      1913 webster
see also:
posted posting to post off to post over 

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