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‖ posthumus, a. and n.|ˈpɒstjʊməs|
[L. post(h)umus posthumous.]
†A. adj. = posthumous a. Obs.
1591Ld. Burghley in Fortescue Papers (Camden) Pref. 7 Though he be posthumus by his fathers death, being borne after. 1660R. Coke Justice Vind. Pref. 5 No man that ever was born in the World, which was not a Posthumus King, but was born in subjection, not onely to his Parents, or as a Servant in a Family.
B. n.
†a. (pl. -i.) A posthumous child. Obs.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 273 He was a posthumus, and the crowne set upon his mothers belly. a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. iv. 109 It is as evident that the Grandfather and Father and Son did as really make up a multitude,..though the Father and Son were both Posthumi, as if they all had or did all now exist together.
b. neut. pl. posthuma. Posthumous writings.
1655Owen Vind. Evang. Wks. 1853 XII. 8 The passages intimated are in his posthuma. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. i. ii. 35, I shall quote some more remarkable Places in Posthuma Fosteri. 1905G. Sampson Keats's Poems Pref., Most reprints give the order of Keats's own three volumes with Lord Houghton's posthuma appended. |