Meaning of take post | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, post. To travel (typically rapidly) by posthorse or post chaise; to arrive and assume a military post.
   archaic, intransitive
2. To travel as quickly as possible by whatever means.
   archaic, figuratively, intransitive
3. To begin to serve any position, particularly (UK military, historical) to be named a post-captain.
   archaic, figuratively, intransitive
4. To establish oneself in a defensive or offensive position.
   archaic, figuratively, intransitive

Examples

“[…] I had my Health and Limbs […] and might, with Ease, travel a Day or two on foot, and having a good Certificate of being in perfect Health, might either hire a Horse, or take Post on the Road, as I thought fit.”

“I saw her laid low in her kindred’s vault, And presently took post to tell it you:”

“No man can [te]ll how soone hee shall bee arraigned in the great Iudge his Consistorie: The day of this life wherein onelie wee can worke, declineth a pace: The fearfull night cloud hath taken post. So soone as it shall come, man shall bee discharged to worke any more.”

“I shall leave these directions and take post to a conclusion.”

“He took ill with a fever when he finally returned to Princeton, but, scorning mundane ailments, he took post to Philadelphia, once more on behalf of his beloved College.”

“The besieged sprung a Mine under the Assailants first line, which buried Captain Kalkreiter, and some Souldiers. But seeing they could not take post for want of Earth […] it was thought expedient to make a retreat...”

“[…] through their whole controversy with the Court of Directors, they do not so much as hint at their ever having seen any other paper from lord Macartney, or any other estimate of revenue, than this of 1781. To this they hold. Here they take post; here they entrench themselves.”

“ISCARIOT at the table’s lowest foot Took post, where best he might escape that glance, From whose intelligence no heart could hide Its guilty meditations:”

“Benares is a religious Vesuvius. In its bowels the theological forces have been heaving and tossing, rumbling, thundering and quaking, boiling, and weltering and flaming and smoking for ages. But a little group of missionaries have taken post at its base, and they have hopes.”

“Our watchers took post on the crest, looking out over the harvested plains to the Hejaz Railway.”

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