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after-born, ppl. a.|ˈɑːftəˌbɔːn, æ-|
[after- 8, 3.]
1. Born after the father's death, posthumous; in Rom. Law, also, Born after the father's last will.
c1000ælfric Gram. xlvii. 275 Posthumus, æfterboren, sé þe bið ᵹeboren æfter bebyrᵹedum fæder. a1581E. Campion Hist. Irel. ii. iii. (1633) 73 Issue two daughters, and an after-borne son called Arthur. 1880Muirhead Ulpian xxii. §15 After-born descendants..such children in the womb as, were they already born, would be in our potestas. 1880― Gaius ii. §241 By a stranger after-born we mean a person who will not on birth be one of the sui heredes of the testator.
2. Younger, of later birth.
1609Skene Reg. Maj. 31 Quhen the Lord..is willing to marie his eldest dochter or his after born dochter. 1768Blackstone Comm. II. 251 Which daughter shall resign such inheritance to her after-born brother, or divide it with her after-born sisters, according to the usual rule of descents. 1882Mrs. Haweis in Belgravia July 36 Chaucer is spoken of by his contemporaries and by the great afterborns. |