Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Occurring after death; post-mortem; posthumous.

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Examples

  • I may be probably enjoying the form, the instrumentation, the development of your themes; my neighbor, for all we know, will in imagination have buried his rich, irritable old aunt, and so your pæan of gladness, with its brazen clamor of trumpets, means for him the triumphant ride home from the cemetery and the anticipated joys of the post-mortuary hurrah.

    Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques James Huneker 1890

  • No collection of salient facts (without reduction to tabular form) could be more succinctly stated than is done in the first stanza by the surviving relatives, and no more concise and comprehensive program of farewells, post-mortuary general orders, etc., could be framed in any form than is done in verse by deceased in the last stanza.

    The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories 1872

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