Citations:imposthume

English citations of imposthume

• 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, The present time

  About to break up that huge imposthume too, by ‘curing’ it? Turgot and Necker were nothing to this. God is great; and when a scandal is to end, brings some devoted man to take charge of it in hope, not in despair!

• 1599, Shakespeare, Hamlet: "This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace, / That inward breaks, and shows no cause without / Why the man dies" (4.4.26-8)