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† ˈposthume, a. and n. Obs.
[a. F. posthume adj. (1560 in Godef.), ad. L. post(h)umus last, latest, posthumous: see posthumous.]
A. adj.
a. = posthumous a. Also fig.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 953 Two births, two deaths, here Nature hath assign'd her, Leaving a Posthume (dead-live) seed behind her. 1659H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 157 This posthume Apostle..came late into Christs Livery. a1661Fuller Worthies, Cumbld. (1662) 221/1 Posthume Children born after the death of their Father.
b. = posthumous b.
1611B. Jonson in Coryat Crudities Title-p., In the Posterne..thou shalt find the Posthume Poems of the Authors Father. 1659(title) Posthume Poems of Richard Lovelace.
c. = posthumous c.
1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. iv. Charge 23 Oh if my soule could see their Post-hume spight. 1690Boyle Chr. Virtuoso ii. 21 The posthume State of Man is so dim and uncertain, that we find even the greatest Men, among the Heathen, speak..doubtfully [of it]. 1691T. Heyrick Misc. Poems 35 To claim The whole World's Curses and a Post-hume Fame.
d. Subsequent, residual. rare.
1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 187 That the venal bloud..may be made wholly capable to be breathed thorow the pores, without a Post-hume or Future remembrance of a dreg. Ibid. 292 That post-hume and translated gouty character or impression, doth stick fast by a hereditary right.
B. n.
a. A posthumous child. Also fig.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. Sonn. i. 14 Our dear Parent.. Who..to thy guard his Posthumes did bequeath. 1638W. Sclater Serm. Experimentall To Rdr., They shew themselves in publike but as Posthumes, raised as it were out of almost eleven yeares of obscurity. 1692in Macfarlane's Genealog. Collect. (1900) II. 142 Sir Thomas Maule..Son to Sir Thomas the Posthume.
b. A posthumous work: cf. posthumus B. b.
1631R. Skene in A. Craige's Rem. 3 This subsequent Poësie, the Posthumes of a worthie Penne. 1676Beal in Phil. Trans. XI. 585 Sir Ken. Digby's Post-hume hath great varietie of Metheglins. |