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postexistent

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English

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Etymology

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From post- +‎ existent.

Adjective

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postexistent (not comparable)

  1. 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

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postexistent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.