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post-eˈxist, v. rare.
[f. post- A. 1 + exist v.]
intr. To exist after; to live subsequently.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 37 Anaxagoras could not but acknowledge, that all Souls and Lives did Præ and Post-exist by themselves, as well as those Corporeal Forms and Qualities, in his Similar Atoms.
So post-eˈxistence [after pre-existence], existence after; subsequent existence. post-eˈxistency, post-existent condition. post-eˈxistent a., existing afterwards or subsequently.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 35 That Conceit of Anaxagoras, of Præ and Post-existent Atoms, endued with all those several Forms and Qualities of Bodies. Ibid. 38 These two things were alwaies included together in that one opinion of the Soul's Immortality, namely its Preexistence as well as its Post-existence. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 422 Not denying a pre-existency to Christ's human Body (in the Arian sense..it being suppos'd to be as much a Creature as the least post-existency of a Worm). 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 465 The spirits,..who know nothing of their pre-existence, and scarce anything of their post-existence. 1865Grote Plato III. 27 The post-existence, as well as the pre-existence of the Soul is affirmed in the concluding books. 1977G. W. H. Lampe God as Spirit iii. 71 Luke was, in fact, unable to make a simple identification of the glorified, ‘post-existent’ Jesus with the Spirit in the Church. |