单词 | paulo-post |
释义 | paulo-postadj.prep. Now rare. That is a little subsequent (to some event, etc.). Of a tense: expressing an action that occurs shortly after something else. Also as prep.: shortly after. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adjective] > later > a little later paulo-post1830 1830 A. Kidd Huron Chief 193 The Falernian juice Never was of more use—Freeing me from the Paulo Post tense. 1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 265 Our to-morrow's future should be at least paulo-post to theirs. 1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 289 Conversing with little knots of his paulopost congregation. a1933 J. Galsworthy End of Chapter (1934) i. iv. 21 Canon Robert says that this maxilla is pre-Trinil. Mokley says Paulo-post-Piltdown. 1959 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 67 253 Paulopost alteration converted plagioclase to muscovite and epidote. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.prep.1830 |
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