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‖ postˈnatus
pl. -i.
[med.L. postnātus born after: see prec.]
1. One born after a particular event; spec. in Scotland, one born after the Union of the Crowns; in U.S., one born after the Declaration of Independence. Chiefly in pl. postnati.
1609(title) The Speech of the Lord Chancellor of England touching the Post-nati. 1638Rawley tr. Bacon's Life & Death (1650) 14 This Length of Life, immediately after the Floud, was reduced to a Moitie; But in the Post-Nati: For Noah, who was borne before, equalled the Age of his Ancestours. 1669Duke of Lauderdale in Collect. Poems 231 It was..solemnly adjudged, in the Case of the Post⁓nati, that those, who after the Descent of the Crown of England to King James, were born in Scotland, were no Aliens in England. 1800Laing Hist. Scot. (1804) III. 14 The postnati, born since the death of Elizabeth, as their allegiance was indiscriminately due to James, were declared to be freely naturalized in either kingdom.
†2. A second son. Obs.
1727–41Chambers Cycl., Post-natus is also used by Bracton, Fleta, Glanville, &c. for the second son, as distinguished from the eldest. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Postnatus, the second son, or one born afterwards. 1848in Wharton Law Lex. |