单词 | post-fact |
释义 | post-factadj.n. A. adj. = post facto adj. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adjective] > later > after the event post facto1576 post-fact1625 post factum1851 1625 in S. R. Gardiner Deb. House of Commons (1873) 15 That which was voyde att first, cannot bee made good by any post fact right. 1879 A. D. T. Whitney Sights & Insights (new ed.) I. xvi. 173 Another way in which the putting down of things in this post-fact fashion does me good..is in the look I get at them myself at a farther and clearer focus. 2004 Chicago Defender (Nexis) 21 June 14 All of this post-fact analysis and findings are meaningless. That which is done after; a subsequent act. Esp. in upon the postfact: after the fact or event, subsequently, afterwards. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > an act or deed > subsequent post-fact1631 post-act1721 the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adverb] > after, afterwards, or later > after the event or after the fact upon the postfact1631 ex post facto1632 post factum1649 post facto1650 post hoc1844 post eventum1846 après coup1871 post festum1887 the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun] > subsequent event or act after-cominga1382 subsequence1563 consequenta1627 post-fact1631 train1638 arrear1659 sequent1833 post hoc1843 sequence1853 follow-on1879 1631 P. Heylyn Hist. St. George 91 Iust as upon the post-fact, the Normans fram'd that doughty tale of St. Romanus and the Dragon. 1641 Proc. of some Divines 1 Some have published, that there is a proper Sacrifice in the Lords supper, to exhibit Christs death in the Postfact, as there was a sacrifice to prefigure in the old Law, in the Antefact. 1657 R. Sanderson 14 Serm. Pref. ii. 4 [To] win over his affections to any tolerable liking thereof upon the Post-fact. 1687 G. Towerson Baptism 296 Being likely enough to be thereby dispos'd so far to acknowledge that authority and goodness, as to own them upon the postfact by confession. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1625 |
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