单词 | after-born |
释义 | after-bornadj.n. A. adj. 1. Chiefly Law. Of a child: born after the father's death, or after the execution of the father's will (cf. posthumous adj. 2). Also (Roman Law): born after the composition of the father's last will. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > [adjective] > born > posthumously after-bornOE society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > posthumous after-bornOE posthumusa1522 posthume1590 posthumial1605 posthumous1640 posthumate1684 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > born after father's last will after-born1832 OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 275 Posthumus æfterboren (se þe bið geboren æfter bebyrgedum fæder). c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) ii. iii. 81 Issue two daughters and an afterborne sonne, called Arthure. 1632 T. E. Lawes Womens Rights i. ix. 14 Though there came an after borne sonne of any of the brethren, she may detaine all, &c. for a remainder vested is not like to fee simple discended to a daughter, where a sonne Posthumus may enter. a1737 N. Pigott Treat. Common Recoveries (1739) iii. 79 If a Man..dies, and leaves a Daughter, his Wife enseint with a Son, the Reversion descends to the Daugther,..yet this is void as to the after-born Son. 1832 Law Mag. 8 484 A great nephew was born after the testator's death... Held, that..the after-born nephew was entitled to a share. 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes ii. 157 By a stranger after-born we mean a person who will not on birth be one of the sui heredes of the testator. 1918 J. E. Alexander Comm. Law of Wills II. xxiii. 951 An after-born or posthumous child provided for in the will necessarily takes thereunder. 1952 Virginia Law Rev. 38 526 After-born children of the testator's children may become entitled to share equally..with those..who were in being at the time of his death. 2002 S. L. Shier & R. Wallenfelsz in J. A. Soled Estate Planning Strategies iii. xvii. 251 The birth of a child or adoption of a child after the execution of a will can modify a will as to the after-born child's intestate share of the estate, unless the will provided for after-born children. 2. Born later; born after another person, esp. a sibling; younger. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > younger than an age > younger youngerOE puisne1565 after-born?1575 secundus1826 ?1575 C. Vitell tr. H. Niclaes Prouerbia vii. f. 20 Many of ye after-borne Daughters of the Heathen, did not vprightlie take-heede vnto the right Coniunction with that noble Sonne. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 31 Quhen the Lord..is willing to marie his eldest dochter or his after born dochter. 1693 S. Wesley Life our Blessed Lord iv. 119 Tho' after-born, existing long before. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 251 Which daughter shall resign such inheritance to her after-born brother, or divide it with her after-born sisters, according to the usual rule of descents. 1872 T. G. Hake Parables & Tales 5 To dream with after-born regret On heavenly beauty passed away. 1881 T. Twiss tr. H. de Bracton De Legibus Angliæ IV. iii. 261 If an elder-born brother has had a son or a daughter,..and an afterborn brother [L. frater postnatus] claims an assise concerning [etc.]. 1991 Duke Law Jrnl. 41 662 During the course of her pregnancy, Gloria takes medication that causes a heart valve deformity in the after-born child. B. n. Now usually in form afterborn. An after-born person or child. Also (with plural agreement, usually with the): after-born people or children considered collectively. Now chiefly Law.In quot. OE in extended use, applied to a person raised from the dead. ΚΠ OE Aldhelm Glosses (Rawl. C.697) in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 182/2 [Resurgens] postumus : æfterbora [prob. read æfterborena]. ?1585 E. Aggas tr. E. de L'Allouette Catholicke Apologie iv. f. 115v The first dyed before his father leauing his wife with childe:..at a banquet among his friendes his neuewe the after borne was offered vnto him. 1696 ‘Timotheus’ in J. Lead Fountain of Gardens Ed. to Rdr. sig. *A4v First in particular Souls, then in the whole Family of the Firstborn, after that in the Great Assembly of the After-born. 1824 T. Jefferson Let. 4 Feb. in J. M. Yarbrough Essent. Jefferson (2006) 257 By emancipating the after-born, leaving them, on due compensation, with their mothers. 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes ii. 119 On the agnation of any such after-born, it is broken and thereby rendered altogether void. 1882 Belgravia July 36 Chaucer is spoken of by his contemporaries and by the great afterborns. 1955 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. 41 168/2 Creation of the afterborn's two-thirds share would therefore have reduced the widow's..share..to one-sixth. 1964 All Eng. Law Rep. 3 446 A gift of income with an age contingency, where all after-born are let in. 2007 Real Prop., Probate & Trust Jrnl. 42 494 The rule would preclude the afterborn who had not been expressly excluded from the group gift. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.OE |
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