| 单词 |
postnate |
| 释义 |
† ˈpostnate, a. (n.) Obs.
[ad. med.L. postnāt-us (Du Cange) born after, f. post after + nātus born. See puisne, puny.]
Born, produced, made, or occurring after something else; later, of later date, subsequent to.
1638Chillingw. Relig. Prot. i. ii. §163. 119 Practises of the Church,..evidently post-nate to the time of the Apostles. 1672–3Grew Anat. Roots i. ii. §2 Every Root hath successively two kinds of Skins... The other, Postnate, succeeding in the room of the former, as the Root ageth. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 585 Which makes..Knowledge and Wisdom, to be but a Second or Post Nate Thing. a1734North Examen i. iii. §91 Postnate to the Narrative of Dates. 1770Sir J. Hill Construct. Timber 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.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. iii. (1642) 192 These and many such passages..in Sibyls Oracles,..our Philologers..would perswade us, that they were counterfaits and Post⁓nates, forged by Christians.
Hence † postˈnated a. = postnate a.
1659H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 293 The Council of Laodicea,..to which Popery is post-nated above three hundred years. |
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