0 made or happening only after an event, not planned or decided before it happens:
1 after an event, not in a way that is planned or decided before it happens:
The material presented is not some kind of post hoc analysis imposed upon the texts in the light of present-day concerns.
Your reasons for your actions are post hoc rationalizations that your brain generates to explain to you what your brain has already done.
One might say that attitudes can be discovered post hoc.
If all comparisons are done post hoc, then no experiment was done since the hypothesis was not stated prior to the experiment.
Treatment decisions are often made post hoc, based on conclusions drawn from observing the effects of medications.
