What does "posture" mean?
Posture: Place; position; situation. [Obs.] Milton. His [man's] noblest posture and station in this world. Sir M. Hale.
Additional senses
- 2.State or condition, whether of external circumstances, or of internal feeling and will; disposition; mood; as, a posture of defense; the posture of affairs. The several postures of his devout soul. Atterbury. See Attitude.
- 3.To place in a particular position or attitude; to dispose the parts of, with reference to a particular purpose; as, to posture one's self; to posture a model. Howell.
- 4.To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose.
- 5.Fig.: To assume a character; as, to posture as a saint.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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