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posticium

posticium [posticus 3+-ium] , private or hidden door, back door, postern. ~ium, statio, postis ubi scilicet occultum ostium efficitur Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 479; 1188 in operatione pontis castelli de Bedeforda et ~ii versus aquam iiij li. et vj s. Pipe 120; rex per ~ium palatii, fixis tentoriis, ecclesiam est ingressus, ut evaderet populi compressionem Ann. Paul. 261; latenter ingressi sunt per ~ium versus aquam Tamisie Wals. HA I 170.

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