单词 | post-exist |
释义 | post-existv. rare. intransitive. To exist at a later time, esp. after the present life. Also transitive: to exist later than. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > [verb (intransitive)] > exist previously or after pre-exist1585 post-exist1678 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 37 Anaxagoras could not but acknowledge, that all Souls and Lives did Præ and Post-exist by themselves, as well as those Corporeal Forms and Qualities, in his Similar Atoms. 1962 G. Parrinder Upanishads, Gita, & Bible v. 58 The soul is naturally immortal; it pre-existed and therefore will postexist. 1990 N. Jolley Light of Soul iv. 59 Nor can Descartes explain how ideas can pre-exist and postexist particular acts of thinking. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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