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noun

Posture n.

The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; especially (Fine Arts), the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action is expressed; attitude. "Atalanta, the posture of whose limbs was so lively expressed... one would have sworn the very picture had run." "In most strange postures We have seen him set himself." "The posture of a poetic figure is a description of his heroes in the performance of such or such an action."

Place; position; situation. (Obs.) "His (man's) noblest posture and station in this world."

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."

Synonyms: Attitude; position. See Attitude.

verb

Posture v. t. (past & past part. postured; pres. part. posturing) 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.

Posture v. i.

To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose.

Fig.: To assume a character; as, to posture as a saint.

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Etymology of 'Posture'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Posture" Quotes from Famous Books

... learned President of the Adi Brahmo Samaji for the following accounts of two Yogis, of whom one performed the extraordinary feats of raising his body by will power, and keeping it suspended in the air without visible support. The Yoga posture for meditation or concentration of the mind upon spiritual things is called Asana. There are various of these modes of sitting, such as Padmasan, &c. &c. Babu Rajnarain Bose translated this narrative from a very old number of ...

— Five Years Of Theosophy • Various

... Domingos did not return, we mounted our mules and proceeded through the forest. Had we been on foot we might have followed some paths which the bark-collectors had cut; but many of them would only allow of a person proceeding in a stooping posture under the numberless creepers which were interwoven amid the branches of the trees. We had therefore to make a considerable circuit. At length we came to a less frequented part of the forest, and here we ...

— On the Banks of the Amazon • W.H.G. Kingston

... the darkness he spied something darker yet by the roadside. Going up to it, he found an old woman, half sitting, half standing, with a load of peats in a creel upon her back, unable, apparently, for the moment at least, to proceed. Alister knew at once by her shape and posture who ...

— What's Mine's Mine • George MacDonald

... growing noise, he realized that the crowd was drawing near. When he had struggled to a sitting posture, he ...

— A Royal Prisoner • Pierre Souvestre

... truth, he considered the money as only lent for a short time, or rather indeed as deposited with a banker. He then resolved to have immediate recourse to his surer stratagem; and, casting his eyes round the room, he soon perceived a gentleman sitting in a disconsolate posture, who seemed a proper instrument or tool for his purpose. In short (to be as concise as possible in these least shining parts of our history), Wild accosted this man, sounded him, found him fit to execute, proposed the matter, received a ready assent, and, having ...

— The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great • Henry Fielding

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