单词 | after-friend |
释义 | > as lemmasafter-friend (ii) Denoting something which comes or exists afterwards or subsequently, as after-action, after-beauty, after-friend, after-king, after-love, after-state, etc. Cf. post-act n. at post- prefix 1a(b)(i). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > state of being in love > subsequent love after-lovea1616 the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > subsequent after-action1736 post-treatment1923 OE (Northumbrian) Liturgical Texts (Durham Ritual) in A. H. Thompson & U. Lindelöf Rituale Ecclesiae Dunelmensis (1927) 61 Cum semine eorum permanent bona, hereditas sancta nepotes eorum : mið sed hiora wuniað godo erfeuardnisso hælgo æftercneoreso hiora. OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Corpus Cambr.) ii. xi. 140 Fram ðam eft þa æftercyningas [eOE Tanner æfteran cyningas; L. reges posteriores] him bold worhton on ðam lande, þe Loides hatte. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie Pref. 6 Conference before hand might haue eased them of much aftertrouble. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 95 Scorne at first, makes after-loue the more. View more context for this quotation 1640 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 146 He meaneth to build his after-comforts upon a firm base. 1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (vi. 10) ii. 59 Their former diligence will be..an aggravation of their after-negligence. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 474 All the importunities and necessities of after-affairs. 1701 J. Garretson School of Manners (ed. 4) Pref. Unless the charitable care of some after-friend supply the defects of former education. ?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. i. 9 An After-Statute made by the said King and another Parliament. 1736 T. Carte Hist. Life Duke Ormonde II. 278 But his after-actions did not correspond to these beginnings. 1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens I. 368 These exploits were the foundation of his after-greatness. 1842 H. E. Manning Serm. xviii. 261 All the after-assaults of spiritual wickedness. 1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story I. xv. 103 Though after-experience may rebuke the mortal's illusion. 1914 ‘Saki’ Beasts & Super-beasts 17 Laura was such an unaccountable person in this life that I should not like to lay down definite rules as to what she might be doing in an after state. 1956 Rosicrucian Forum Oct. 30/1 The after-existence, then, to them, must have dimensional characteristics. < as lemmas |
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