aftercast

See also: after-cast

English

Etymology

From after- +‎ cast.

Noun

aftercast (plural aftercasts)

1. (art) Alternative form of after-cast
   • 2007, Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, ‎Hélène Marraud, ‎Diane Tytgat, The Bronzes of Rodin, page 72:

     However, not marking a reproduction or an aftercast "Reproduction" in a visible and indelible manner does constitute an infringement of copyright.

   • 2012, J.W. Frederiks, Dutch Silver, page vii:

     Consequently, the aftercast in lead must here have been made from the model.

   • 2016, David A. Scott, Art: Authenticity, Restoration, Forgery, page 430:

     Note that an aftercast is always an indirect cast, while two directly cast bronzes can be only variants.

   • 2022, Muscarella, The Lie Became Great, page 113:

     Another group that may contain modern aftercasts are figural units composed of two confronting winged semi-human creatures grasping with one hand stylized trees; animals or birds are set in a triad between them; the scene probably depicts a ritual.

2. A consequence or result.
   • 1795, “History of Europe”, in The Annual Register, volume 37, page 14:

     Consulting that strong propensity to immediate gain, whatever may be the aftercast, which governs princes as well as other men, they hesitated not to predict, that the court of Berlin would seize with avidity that portion of Poland which Russia would offer to it, as the price of its dereliction of the Poles.

   • 1881, Thomas Carlyle, ‎James Anthony Froude, Lord Jeffrey, page 265:

     The aftercast of the doctors' futile opiates were generally the worst phenomena; I remember her once coming out to the drawing-room sofa, perhaps about midnight; decided for trying that.

   • 1897, Lord Ernest William Hamilton, The Outlaws of the Marches, page 209:

     My Lord Bothwell canna gie you this, and Mangertoun canna gie you this, nor Laristoun, no, nor Buccleuch himself; but Trimmie Armstrong o' Whithaugh can, ay, and will too,— gie ye back the whale-ruck and red your feet o' the wight o' Tam o' Copshaw's death, and frae any aftercast that may arise there-aftour, just i' swarth of ae word frae you, lad.

   • 1912, Orison Swett Marden, “Why Men Fail”, in Banker and Investor Magazine, page 37:

     He who forecasts his own failure has failed in advance, for forecast is the pattern of the aftercast.

3. An analysis of past events; retrodiction or review.
   • 1844, John Bullar, Lay Lectures on Christian Faith and Practice, page 140:

     His forecast and aftercast ought both to be employed in building the all-important structure of his character, because that character is to last for ever. Holy Scripture, which is sound reason taught and sanctoined by God Himself, rcommends the same aftercast as well as forethought.

   • 1876, Stephen Yorke (pseud. for Mary Linskill), Cleveden, page 143:

     He would risk no aftercast, make no reproach; yet there was strange longin in him to make audible some small part of the anguish of his soul.

   • 2015, H.J. Hsia, Mass Communications Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Approach:

     Thus, prediction is similar to forecast which is usually based upon aftercast.

   1. An analysis of past meteorological data to determine what the weather was like at a previous time.
      • 1941, Accident Investigation Report, page 2:

        An aftercast of the weather indicated that at the time of the accident the ceiling and visibility in the vicinity of Ptarmigan Mountain was unlimited.

      • 1955, Aircraft Accident Report, page 3:

        On October 15, 1956, an aftercast was made by the U. S. Weather Bureau Airport Station at Anchorage, Alaska.

      • 1968, Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine, page 111:

        These two errors may be disentangled if the forecaster does his calculation again after the event using the actual conditions for the night as recorded in the Daily Register. Five stations did this, and the results were called aftercasts.

      • 2021, Michelle Bray, Falling From the Sky:

        After several emails to and telephone conversations involving the Met Office and AAIB, I finally get a copy of the Aftercast report, which the Met Office provides free of charge.

4. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A throw of dice after the game is ended.

Anagrams

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Middle English

Noun

aftercast

1. anything done too late
   • c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     Thus evere he pleith an aftercast
     Of al that the schal seie or do

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