单词 | post eventum |
释义 | post eventumadv.adj. = post factum adv. Also as adj. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adverb] > after, afterwards, or later > after the event or after the fact upon the postfact1631 ex post facto1632 post factum1649 post facto1650 post hoc1844 post eventum1846 après coup1871 post festum1887 1846 ‘G. Eliot’ tr. D. F. Strauss Life Jesus III. iii. ii. §123. 166 Thus renouncing what is narrated..as composed post eventum [Ger. post eventum gebildet]. 1857 A. C. Kendrick tr. H. Olshausen Biblical Comm. New Test. III. ii. 112 It is sought to make it appear probable that these [utterances] were put into the mouth of Christ, post eventum, by the disciples. 1920 Glasgow Herald 13 July 6 Mr Asquith's post-eventum reproofs..leave us cold when we recall that..he and his colleagues might have done much to make the preaching of their historic dogma on retrenchment an effective feature. 1961 J. B. Wilson Reason & Morals i. 8 What seems to happen is that the philosopher arrives on the scene several centuries too late, and explains the advance of knowledge post eventum. 2001 China Rev. Internat. (Nexis) 22 Mar. The predictions were written post eventum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.adj.1846 |
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