单词 | postnate |
释义 | † postnateadj.n. Obsolete. A. adj. Born, produced, made, or occurring after something else; later, of later date, subsequent to. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adjective] > succeeding or subsequent followingOE afterOE nextOE suinga1325 suant1422 succedentc1450 after-comingc1454 secondary1471 subsequent1472 succeeding1561 supervenient1565 subsequent1568 consequent1581 proceeding1592 ensuing1604 subsecutive1611 sequenta1616 insequentc1620 postliminious1625 sequel1632 postnate1638 supervening1640 descending1642 forward1643 postventional1645 yondersa1650 succrescent1653 pedissequous1657 subsequential1657 assequent1659 post-nated1659 posthume1662 posterious1672 survenient1677 succedent1688 postliminous1714 first1746 sequelled1805 postliminary1826 thereafter1830 descensive1882 akoluthic1889 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. ii. §163. 119 Practises of the Church,..evidently post-nate to the time of the Apostles. 1673 N. Grew Idea Phytol. Hist. ii. ii. 61 Every Root hath successively two kind of skins... The other postnate, succeeding in the room of the former as the Root ageth. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 585 Which makes..Knowledge and Wisdom, to be but a Second or Post-Nate Thing. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. iii. §91. 186 Postnate to the Narrative of Oates. 1770 J. Hill Constr. Timber (octavo ed.) 66 It is indeed postnate and comes after them in the order of time. B. n. A production of a period later than its alleged date. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > assignment to a time or dating > assignment to a wrong time or date > something assigned to a wrong date postnatea1641 a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) iii. 192 These and many such passages..in Sibyls Oracles,..our Philologers..would perswade us, that they were counterfaits and Post~nates, forged by Christians. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < adj.n.1638 |
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