Usually means: Law applied after act committed.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word ex post facto:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. ex post facto: Merriam-Webster
  2. ex post facto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ex post facto: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ex post facto: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ex post facto: Vocabulary.com
  6. ex post facto: Wordnik
  7. ex post facto: Wiktionary
  8. ex post facto: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. ex post facto: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. ex post facto: Dictionary.com
  11. ex post facto: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Ex post facto: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Ex post facto: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ex post facto: Rhymezone
  15. Ex post facto: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. Ex Post Facto: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. ex post facto: FreeDictionary.org
  18. ex post facto: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. ex post facto: Foreign Words and Phrases
  20. ex post facto: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. ex post facto: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ex post facto: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. ex post facto: Legal dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. EX POST FACTO, EX POST FACTO, EX POST FACTO: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ex post facto: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (ex post facto)

adjective:  Retroactive.
adjective:  (law) Formulated or enacted after some event, and then retroactively applied to it.
adverb:  (law) By retroactive application of a law formulated or enacted after the deed in question.

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