postexistent
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]postexistent (not comparable)
- existing or living afterward
- 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
- For as for that conceit of Anaxagoras, of pre and post-existent atoms, endued with all those several forms and qualities of bodies ingenerably and incorruptibly, it was nothing but an adulteration of the genuine Atomical philosophy […]
- 1972, W. Nicol, The Sēmeia in the fourth gospel: Tradition and redaction, page 137:
- But the full meaning of this manifestation was revealed only when the postexistent Christ came to live in his followers.
References
[edit]“postexistent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.