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postprandial, a.|-ˈprændɪəl| [f. post- B. 1 b + L. prandi-um luncheon, meal + -al1: cf. prandial.] Done, made, taken, happening, etc. after dinner; after-dinner. (Chiefly humorous.)
1820Coleridge Lett., to J. H. Green (1895) 704 The day including prandial and post-prandial. 1846Life J. Guthrie in Lives Henderson & G. 151 This plan, most likely of post⁓prandial origin, was actually attempted. 1864Reader 9 July 49 A capital postprandial speaker. 1890N. Moore in Dict. Nat. Biog. XXI. 31/2 Men far advanced in post⁓prandial potations. Mod. Post-prandial oratory. Hence postˈprandially adv., after dinner.
1851H. D. Wolff Pict. Span. Life (1853) 35 The crowd that postprandially collects thither. |