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post (v.5)[post 词源字典]: "to station at a post," from post (n.2). Related: Posted; posting.[post etymology, post origin, 英语词源]
post factum: Latin, literally "after the fact," from factum "deed, act" (see fact).
post hoc: Latin, "after this." Especially in post hoc, ergo propter hoc, logical fallacy, literally "after this, therefore because of this."
post meridiem: "after noon," 1640s, Latin, from post "after" (see post-) + accusative of meridies (see meridian).
post office (n.): 1650s, "public department in charge of letter-carrying," from post (n.3) + office. Meaning "building where postal business is carried on" is from 1650s. In slang or euphemistic sense of "a sexual game" it refers to an actual parlor game first attested early 1850s in which pretend "letters" were paid for by kisses.
post restante: direction on mail that it be held at that post office until called for, French, literally "remaining post."
post-: word-forming element meaning "after," from Latin post "behind, after, afterward," from *pos-ti (cognates: Arcadian pos, Doric poti "toward, to, near, close by;" Old Church Slavonic po "behind, after," pozdu "late;" Lithuanian pas "at, by"), from PIE *apo- (cognates: Greek apo "from," Latin ab "away from" see apo-).
post-bellum (adj.): also postbellum, used in U.S. South from 1874 in reference to American Civil War; see post- + bellicose.
post-classical (adj.): 1845, from post- + classical.
post-glacial (adj.): 1855, from post- + glacial.
post-graduate (adj.): also postgraduate, 1858, originally American English, from post- + graduate (adj.). As a noun, attested from 1890. Abbreviation post-grad is recorded from 1950.
post-hole (n.): 1703, from post (n.1) + hole (n.).
post-impressionism (n.): 1910, from post- + impressionism.
Post-it (n.): 1975, proprietary name.
post-millennial (adj.): also postmillennial, 1831, from post- "after" + millennial; chiefly in reference to the Protestant doctrine that the second coming of Christ will occur after, not at, the Christian millennium.
post-modern (adj.): also post-modern, post modern, by 1919, in frequent use from 1949, from post- + modern.
But it has been only during the later decades of the modern era -- during that time interval that might fairly be called the post-modern era -- that this mechanistic conception of things has begun seriously to affect the current system of knowledge and belief; and it has not hitherto seriously taken effect except in technology and in the material sciences. [Thorstein Veblen, "The Vested Interests and the Common Man," 1919]

So much for the misapplied theory which has helped set the artist's nerves a-quiver and incited him to the extremes of post modern art, literary and other. [Wilson Follett, "Literature and Bad Nerves," "Harper's," June 1921]
Of architecture from 1940s; specific sense in the arts emerged 1960s (see postmodernism).
post-mortem (adj.): also postmortem, 1734 (adverb), from Latin post mortem, from post "after" (see post-) + mortem, accusative of mors "death" (see mortal (adj.)). From 1835 as an adjective. As a noun, shortening of post-mortem examination, it is recorded from 1850.
post-operative (adj.): also postoperative, "occurring after a surgical operation," 1869, from post- + operative. Short form post-op is attested from 1971.
post-partum (adj.): also postpartum, 1837, "occurring after birth," from Latin post partum "after birth," from post "after" (see post-) + accusative of partus "a bearing, a bringing forth," from partus, past participle of parere "to bring forth" (see pare). Phrase Post-partum depression first attested 1929.
postage (n.): 1580s, "sending of mail by post;" 1650s as "cost of sending something by mail," from post (n.3) + -age. Postage stamp is attested from 1840; they were recorded as being collected in albums by 1862.