单词 | post-existent |
释义 | post-existentadj. Existing subsequently; existing after the present life. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > [adjective] > existent or existing > existing previously or subsequently prejacenta1513 antecedent1565 pre-existent1597 pre-existing1599 post-existent1678 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 35 That Conceit of Anaxagoras, of Præ and Post-existent Atoms, endued with all those several Forms and Qualities of Bodies. 1799 J. Collins Scripscrapologia (1804) 36 Futurity shall hail his fame, And laud his well remember'd name; And post-existent honors wait, On seventeen hundred ninety eight! 1946 Speculum 21 188 His palace might indeed be called a Castle of Souls: for with the exception of Elijah who never died, it is inhabited and visited by souls only: the pre-existent souls of the two Messiahs, the post-existent souls of the Patriarchs and Kings. 1977 G. W. H. Lampe God as Spirit iii. 71 Luke was, in fact, unable to make a simple identification of the glorified, ‘post-existent’ Jesus with the Spirit in the Church. 1992 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 43 346 Thus the laws that govern the behaviour of certain material structures cannot be pre-existent or postexistent with respect to the entire classes of such structures. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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