Meanings
- not comparableContrived, done, or existing afterwards.
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The Reaſon vvhy Men are ſo ſhort and vveak in Governing is, becauſe moſt Things fall out to them accidentally, and come not into any Compliance vvith their pre-conceiv'd Ends, but they are forced to comply ſubſequently, and to ſtrike in vvith Things as they fall out, by poſtliminious After-Applications of them to their Purpoſes, or by framing their Purpoſes to them.
1685 March 3 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar); first published 1692, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey, February 22, 1684–5”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume I, London: […] J[ohn] H[eptinstall] for Thomas Bennet, […], →OCLC, pages 300–301Synonyms: postliminiar, postliminary
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveContrived, done, or existing afterwards.
Origin
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