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post-diluvian, a. and n.|pəʊstdɪˈl(j)uːvɪən|
[f. post- B. 1 + L. diluvi-um a deluge + -an. So F. postdiluvien adj. (Littré).]
A. adj. Existing or occurring after the Flood or Noachian deluge.
1680Lawson Mite into Treasury 9 The Ante-diluvian and Post-diluvian Patriarchs, that is, the Fathers that lived before and after the Flood. 1759Wesley Wks. (1872) II. 496 Nothing on the postdiluvian earth could be more pleasant than the road from hence. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. i. 15 The pristine ages of the post-diluvian world. 1877Dawson Orig. World xiii. 285, I have referred above only to the question of historic or postdiluvian man.
B. n. One who lived, or lives, after the Flood.
1684T. Burnet Th. Earth i. 221 If they allow the post-diluvians to have liv'd six hundred..years, that being clearly beyond the standard of our lives. 1710Steele Tatler No. 264 ⁋5 Methusalem might be half an Hour in telling what a Clock it was; but as for us Postdiluvians, we ought to do every Thing in Hast. 1830Jas. Douglas Truths Relig. iii. (1832) 140 The history of the first postdiluvians has indeed passed away. |