Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
postliminary .
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- adjective Contrived, done, or existing afterwards.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The reason why men are so short and weak in governing is, because most things fall out to them accidentally, and come not into any compliance with their preconceived ends, but they are forced to comply subsequently, and to strike in with things as they fall out, by postliminious after-applications of them to their purposes, or by framing their purposes to them.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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If we consider the sin of the fallen angels themselves, there might, without dispute, have been a prevention of it, though no recovery after it; and a keeping of their first station, (as the apostle expresses it,) though, when once quitted, no postliminious return to it, no retrieving of a lost innocence or a forfeited felicity.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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"postliminious prefaces," that the true spirit of "The Seasons," till long after their publication, was neither felt nor understood.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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