post off
verb1
To send away through the postal service; to mail.
- A second vse hence we should make, is for reproofe of many, who post off the time of the Lords offer, till age, sicknes, death: of these there are specially two sorts.1608 June 12, Thomas Hopkins, Two Sermons Vpon the XII. Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrewes […], published 1609, page 63:
- […] let me inferr further, that this late repentance must needs be very dangerous, when as repentance at the best, withall advantages of life, is a worke of the greatest difficulty; why then should we post off that to the last minute, for which all our life is to little?1641 February 6, John Marston, A Sermon Preached at St. Margaretts in VVestminster […], published 1642, page 26:
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- Why did I, venturously, post off so great a business?1658, Richard Baxter, Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live: