单词 | afterworld |
释义 | afterworldn. 1. A future state of existence; a later generation; the world of the future; future generations considered collectively; posterity. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] > collectively bairn-teamc885 kinc950 seedOE teamOE offspringOE kindOE childrenc1175 lineage1303 generationa1325 issuea1325 successiona1340 kindredc1350 progenya1382 posterityc1410 sequelc1440 ligneea1450 posterior1509 genealogy1513 propagation1536 racea1547 postery1548 after-spring1583 bowela1593 afterworld1594 loin1608 descendance1617 succession1618 proles1640 descent1667 ramage1936 1594 M. Drayton Ideas Mirrour vii. sig. B4 Now passe on Time, to after-worlds tell this, Tell truelie Time what in thy time hath beene. 1596 Vlysses vpon Aiax sig. B2 v The afterworlde shall rather pittie your lost time. 1623 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in Flowres of Sion 61 That to after-worlds thou mightst leaue some monument that once thou wast. 1842 F. Jones tr. C. von Rotteck Gen. Hist. World III. 226 The nation saw..its heroic friends..die upon the scaffold; and the after-world mentions their names with love. 1864 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 7) 327 He planned a poem, such as a man might name, Prophetic, of Time's afterworld. 1885 M. Arnold Poems III. 244 Action I had not, followers, fame; I pass'd obscure, alone. The after-world forgets my name, Nor do I wish it known. 1913 G. Murray Euripides & his Age ii. 50 The judgement of the afterworld upon them will depend on the side we take in a never-ending battle. 2. A world entered after death; the world of the afterlife. Frequently with the. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] bliss971 heavenOE paradiseOE towera1240 seatc1275 heavenwarda1300 Abraham's bosomc1300 tabernaclea1340 wonea1350 sanctuary1382 pasturec1384 firmament1388 sky?1518 Canaan1548 welkin1559 happy land1562 sphere?1592 heavenwards1614 afterworld1615 patria1707 god-home1848 overworld1858 the invisible1868 the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > non-Christian heaveneOE other worldOE paradise?a1425 pantheon?1545 Olympus1582 Hesperidesa1592 tian1613 afterworld1615 Swarga1734 goddery1811 Pure Land1819 Reinga1820 Tir-na-nog1889 Jodo1901 sand-hill1949 1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe iv. 181 He speaks of the state of th' elect in the after-world. 1645 J. Ussher Body of Divinitie 246 In this world, Gods Children are subject to the fiery tryall, but after these troubles, rest is provided for them,..and no fire to be feared in that after world. 1793 R. G. Lee Ransom of Manilla i. ii. 11 Endless torment, Inherent to the act of suicide, In after worlds. 1833 T. Semmes Poems by Collegian 32 It might be A glorious home in the afterworld, In which to live with thee. 1867 C. T. Brooks tr. L. Schefer Layman's Breviary 36 How many thousand human hearts once yearned, In Egypt, in Eleusis, on the Indus,—Yearned for the afterworld,—Elysium! 1887 H. S. Holland Christ or Eccles. 128 That great after-world for which..this age-long story of man is but a preparation. 1949 D. L. Sayers in tr. Dante Comedy I. Introd. 17 The positions they occupy in the Three Kingdoms of the After-world. 1981 A. Gray Lanark 489 Modern afterworlds are always infernos, never paradisos. 2005 C. Mann 1491 iii. viii. 245 The Maya saw the afterworld as a kind of endless, foggy sea. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1594 |
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