1557 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 101 Inventorie... In the yard and parke . xii. posted tymber trees.

1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xix. xxxvi. 344 There lay by chance a posted tree therebie.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) When a tree is cut into a square form, it is termed posted.

1648 A. C. Vindic. Cromwell & Ireton 1 A Vindication of Lieu. Gen. Cromwell and Com. Gen. Ireton, against a posted Libell signed by one Tompson.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cx. 529 So ancient..the aspect..that you almost looked next for..coins of Captain Noah, with copies of the posted placards, vainly warning the..world from the flood.

1897 Daily News 8 June 3/3 The posted announcement that the ‘jumping competitions would begin at three o'clock’ brought numbers on to the grassy banks.

1912 Times 19 Dec. 19/5 Sterling exchange has ruled strong for short paper at 20 to 35 points advance in posted rates.

1923 New Republic 21 Feb. 747/2 Young men who go about in bands..tearing down the posted announcements or banners of political opponents.

1975 N.Y. Times 29 Oct. 28/1 There was ample time to peruse the posted menu of the day's cuisine minceur.

1991 C. Tomkins Corporate Resource Allocation 192 Even those countries that formed the oil cartel in the mid-1970s were very careful..about enforcing posted price increases until they were sure that the cartel would hold.

1572 Abp. M. Parker Let. 13 Dec. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 412 This shop..is made like the terrace, fair railed and posted, fit for men to stand upon in any triumph or shew.

1595 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 145 One posted bed, with Tester & a paynted cloth xs.

1614 Inventory in Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. 3 115 One posted bedd with teaster and curtaines.

1649 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 220 My posted settworke bedstead.

1791 Daily Advertiser (N.Y.) 26 May Mahogany Furniture..high and low posted bedsteads, and bedstead posts.

1798 Hull Advertiser 17 Nov. 2/2 A good and substantial wind corn posted mill.

1828 Marly: Planter's Life in Jamaica 35 The furniture consisted of a table and a chair, with a posted bed.

1879 S. O. Jewett Good Luck in Good Company Dec. 220/2 We had found the curtains that belonged on the high-posted beds.

1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 48/2 The great high posted bed with its heavy hangings was the most valued piece of furniture in the house.

1970 H. Braun Parish Churches iv. 39 With posted construction, a timber tower could easily have been surrounded by an aisle.

1993 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Apr. 225/1 It is broken by the woman who descends the broad oak-posted staircase.

1616 A. Munday tr. Palmerin of Eng. (new ed.) i. i. sig. Bi^v To recount thy posted pleasure, and also to thinke on thy present ensuing paine.

1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. iv. 93 Full-points serve instead of Rules, in work of Accounts, to lead and to connect the posted Article with its contingent valuation.

1955 Times 25 Jan. 13/1 The system..will completely replace hand-posted ledgers, even in the smallest branches.

1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. viii. 308 There has been a great increase in the number of posted letters.

1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect i. i. 111 A receiver of posted letters acquires an engrained sensibility to half an ounce.

1978 Times 4 Aug. 16/6 We shall have 48 mechanized letter offices, handling 60 per cent of posted mail.

2004 N.Y. Sun (Nexis) 25 May 14 Online banks are quick to shoot down fears, claiming it's easier to steal an identity through posted mail than e-mail.

1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. i. sig. Ppp4^v/1 Posté, posted, or placed.

1689 E. Howard Caroloiades vi. 180 They defy By Peals of Shot the daring Enemy: And with recruited Fury Sallies make, Where Posted Foes they kill and Pris'ners take.

1781 G. Cockings Amer. War ii. 49 Ready for war the posted Britons stood A close and smart encounter quick ensu'd.

1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 190 The point where the head of a column enters an alignement, and which is marked by a posted person.

1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. vi. 190 We drove under some posted field-batteries into Basle.

1898 Dict. National Biogr. LV. 365/2 Rivers had to be crossed and a strongly posted enemy dislodged.

1929 A. Clarke Pilgrimage 17 He drank at posted fires Where armies had been glutted.

1994 Times 23 Dec. 18/1 A meeting of European Union employment ministers on Wednesday failed to endorse EU-wide legislation to ensure posted workers do not undercut local labour markets.