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Post Obit

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An agreement to pay for a loan a larger sum of money, together with interest at death. (Latin post obʹitum, after the death of the person named in the bond.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Portuguese
Poser
Posse
Posse Comitatus (Latin)
Posset
Post
Post Factum (Latin)
Post Meridian (Latin)
Post-mortem (Latin)
Post-mortem Degree (A)
Post Obit
Poste Restante (French)
Posted
Posteriori
Posthumus (Leonatus)
Posting-Bills
Posy
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Pot-boilers
Pot-luck
Pot Paper