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paulo-post-future, a. and n.|ˌpɔːləʊpəʊstˈfjuːtjʊə(r)|
[ad. mod.L. paulo post futurum, the current rendering, from the time of Lascaris 1494, of the Greek name ὁ µετ' ὀλίγον µέλλων, the future after a little, in Sp. el futuro de aquí a poco. In 16th c. called also mox futurum ‘immediate future’; and in 19th c. Grammars, ‘third future’, ‘futurum exactum’, ‘futurum perfectum’, ‘future perfect’.]
1. A name of a tense of the passive voice of Greek verbs, the chief use of which was to state that an event will take place immediately.[A good example of the Greek use is in Aristoph. Plut. 1027 ϕράζε, καὶ πεπράξεται, Speak and it shall be done at once, or as soon as said.] 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. ii. vi. 161 Some grammarians have alleged, that..we should also admit the dual number, the paulo-post future tense, the middle voice.. found in Greek.
2. allusively. A future which is a little after the present; a by-and-by; belonging to an immediate or proximate future.
[1822Shelley Lett. Pr. Wks. 1880 IV. 260 My post..must be transformed by your delay into a paulo post futurum.] 1848Lowell Fable for Critics 936 Here comes Dana, abstractedly loitering along, Involved in a paulo-post-future of song, Who'll be going to write what'll never be written Till the Muse..gives him the mitten. 1887Dowden Life Shelley I. vi. 246 Shelley's..anticipated profits were in the paulo-post-future. 1901Scotsman 9 Sept. 7/4 An accumulation like this of time-expired men has a paulo-post-future effect on the working of the short-service system.
Hence ˌpaulo-post-fuˈturatively adv., as belonging to the near future. So ˌpaulo-ˈpost a. [L. paulo post a little after], a little subsequent; also ˌpaulo-ˈpast a., a little past, relating to something lately finished. (All nonce-wds.)
a1843Southey Doctor Interch. xx. (1848) 494 While I am treating of it paulo-post-futuratively, as of a possible case. 1849Thoreau Week Concord Riv. Wed. 265 Our to-morrow's future should be at least paulo-post to theirs. 1876C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond. 289 Conversing with little knots of his paulopost congregation. 1892Stevenson Across Plains 106 All that I say in this paper is in a paulo-past tense. |