单词 | after-comer |
释义 | after-comern. A person who comes after; a descendant; a successor. Also in plural: future generations, posterity. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] sonOE lineage1303 rootc1330 impinga1340 after-comera1382 nephewa1387 impc1412 descentc1475 branch1535 descendant1569 stirp1574 scion1591 sprig1591 slip1594 sprout?1611 posterior1889 ancestor1920 the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun] > successor followereOE successor1297 after-comera1382 nephewa1387 succedentc1440 succeederc1450 successary1486 sequacesa1513 incomer1526 subsequent1560 phoenixa1616 superseder?1774 supersessor1810 epigone1865 sequels in estate1889 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xxii. 3 Sey to hem & to þe after comers [L. posteros] of hem. c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 33 Moyses..taught vs how we shulde answere to oure aftir cummers. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 43 That knycht, and all his eftercummaris of him. 1538 R. Morison tr. J. Sturm Epist. Cardynalles sig. Eiiiv They haue written nothing contrarye to the honour of Chryste..: whiche oughte to be as a rule for vs, theyr after comers. 1563 J. Man tr. W. Musculus Common Places Christian Relig. 13 a All their after comers gat the same bleamishe and corruption. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie To Rdr. sig. (b)2 I haue broken the Ice, and made way to some after-commers of greater gifts and riper iudgment. 1654 E. Leigh Syst. Divinity sig. bv Their [sc. the Apostles'] doctrine..is the Rule of Faith to all after-comers. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 67 They leave very little to be added by after commers. 1705 G. Berkeley in A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. (1871) IV. 448 The passage of aftercomers is made more secure & easy. 1791 S. Dobson tr. Petrarch View Human Life 267 Were we to speak of the after-comers in fraternity, what horrors or ill treatment must we relate. 1853 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. ii. xi. 55 That one church which Christ..left to be taught and governed by his apostles and their after-comers in the apostleship. 1879 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 79 After-comers cannot guess the beauty been. 1912 Outing July 427/2 Flagstones bearing memorial inscriptions that were almost worn smooth by the feet of millions of after-comers. 1958 E. Blunden War Poets 1914–18 ii. 19 When after-comers walk through some well-tended war cemetery. 2009 H. Mallalieu 1066 & Rather More 15 I don't believe in ghosts.., but I do suppose it possible that strong emotion..might leave traces to be felt by receptive after-comers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1382 |
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