Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Posthumous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Posthumous.

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Examples

  • But if the reader takes the word of someone who has done no more than read Mallarmé over that of a person who has spent sixty years on him (nine books in print) and been called more than once Mallarmé's prolongation ( "Mallarmé posthume," Deguy), well it just offers more evidence of why smart young people are apt to go into science.

    Mallarme's Prolongation Cohn, Robert Greer 1995

  • (D'Assier's _L'humanité posthume_, p. 47) Similar instances are found in _The Night Side of Nature_, by C. C.owe, as well as in other works of the same kind.

    Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Th. Pascal

  • Ouvrage posthume de M.J. F. Henckel, publie sous le titre de _Henckelius in Mineralogia redivivus_ et traduit de l'Allemand.

    Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918

  • _Introduction a la Mineralogie ... oeuvre posthume de

    Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918

  • Introduction a la Mineralogie ... oeuvre posthume de M.J. F. Henckel, Paris, Cavelier, 1756, first published under title

    Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914

  • Ouvrage posthume de M.J. F. Henckel, publie sous le titre de

    Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914

  • Despotisme Orientale_, Ouvrage posthume de M. Boulanger, 1763, 12mo.

    A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Henry R. Plomer 1901

  • Then his most pain was in his breast, and he went again to pray and to give thankings to God and to S. Edward of the deliverance of his posthume.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900

  • For he had on his arm a congelation of blood in manner of a posthume, he had also in his breast a straitness that unnethe he might draw his breath, also he had in his foot a marvellous swelling and a great, that he might not go but with great pain.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900

  • And when he had made an end of his prayers he arose up, and went to the bells for to ring them, and anon the posthume of his arm brake, and when the foul matter was out, he felt himself whole of that disease.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900

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