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单词 post-mortuary
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post-mortuary
post-mortuary adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)pəʊs(t)ˈmɔːtjʊəri/
,
/(ˌ)pəʊs(t)ˈmɔːtjᵿri/
,
/(ˌ)pəʊs(t)ˈmɔːtʃʊəri/
,
/(ˌ)pəʊs(t)ˈmɔːtʃ(ᵿ)ri/
,
U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈmɔrtʃuˌɛri/
occurring, or relating to what may occur, after a person's death; cf. post-mortem adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > [adjective] > before or after death
posthume1598
posthumous1608
posthumeda1661
after-death1680
post-mortuary1791
post-mortem1816
post-obit1822
post-obituary1822
pre-mortem1892
1791 J. C. Lettsom Let. in J. J. Abraham Lettsom (1833) xv. 275 My Essay took in the History of London; but I see no time to prepare it for the press. I must leave it as a post-mortuary legacy.
1856 L. M. Sargent Dealings with Dead I. 208 Our good friends in England next thought it expedient to divest the process of hanging, of all its postmortuary terrors.
1988 Ethos 16 216 Many of the traditional prescriptions of the burial and postmortuary ritual are explained by my informants as precautions to hamper the mobility of the ghost.
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