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Meaning: (obsolete,idiomatic)A knownperjurer; a professionalfalse witness.1662(indicated as1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, inHudibras. The First and Second Parts.[…], London:[…]John MartynandHenry Herringman,[…], published1678,→OCLC; republished inA[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor,Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:University Press,1905,→OCLC:[…]But with more lucky hit than thoseThat use to make the stars depose,Likeknights o' th' post, and falsely chargeUpon themselves what others forge;As if they were consenting toAll mischief in the world men do[…]1751,[Tobias] Smollett,The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle[…], volume(please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co.,[…],→OCLC:[T]he fugitive had been cajoled by a certainknight of the post, who undertook to manage the thousand pounds in such a manner, as would, in a very little time, make him perfectly independent[…].1592,Thomas Nashe,Pierce Penniless:Aknight of the post[…]quoth he, for so I am termed; a fellow that will swear you anything for twelve pence.
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