posticipate

present singular third person posticipates · participle present posticipating · participle past posticipated · past posticipated

1. raretransitiveTo refer back to (an earlier event, moment etc.), to come later in time than (something); to succeed. Opposed to anticipate.

   Firstly, oscillation between events of imperial and of local interest, the anticipated diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria (born 1820, acceded 1837) and the posticipated opening of the new municipal fish market

   1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, →OL, page 631

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   Similarly, if the recollection of such a meeting first arouses excitement which then suddenly is reduced, the smile of joy may be activated in what may be called “posticipation.” If the anticipated or posticipated encounter generates fear, or distress, or shame which is reduced, in imagination, by appropriate counteractive measures, one may smile in joy as a hero.

   1965, Silvan Tomkins, “The Biopsychosociality of the Family”, in Aspects of the Analysis of Family Structure, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →OL, page 200

   This can be interpreted as an invitation to design a growth process in such a way as to ensure that the physical limits are met as late as possible, taking into account that exogenous shocks may anticipate or posticipate, given a determined course of action, the crossing of such (possibly uncertain) threshold.

   1996, Andrea Beltratti, chapter 6, in Models of Economic Growth with Environmental Assets, Boston: Kluwer Academic, →ISBN, page 96

   In the Italian translation, however, the tight link between the head cloud (“very serious... and delicious”) and the head (“medical condition”) is broken, as the former is posticipated, the latter is anticipated and the pause between the two is eliminated.

   2014, Giovanna Di Pietro, “It don’t mean a thing if you ain’t got that sync – An analysis of word order, kinesic synchrony and comic timing in dubbed humour”, in Translating Humour in Audiovisual Texts, Bern: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 345