posteriorityn.

Brit.

/pɒˌstɪərɪˈɒrᵻti/, U.S.

/pɑˌstɪriˈɔrədi/,

/poʊˌstɪriˈɔrədi/

Forms: 1500s posteriorite, 1500s posterioritie, 1500s posteryorite, 1600s– posteriority.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French posteriorité ; posterior adj., -ity suffix.

Etymology: Partly < Anglo-Norman and Middle French posteriorité (French postériorité ) state or quality of being later or subsequent in time (c1339 or earlier in legal use in Anglo-Norman), back parts of the body (?1533 in an apparently isolated attestation, in the passage translated in quot. ?1533 at sense 3; < post-classical Latin posterioritas state or quality of being later (12th cent.; from 13th cent. in British sources), descendants (8th cent. in a British source) < classical Latin posterior posterior adj. + -itās -ity suffix), and partly (in sense 2, which is apparently not attested in either French or Latin) < posterior adj. + -ity suffix. Compare Spanish posterioridad (first half of the 15th cent. or earlier). Compare earlier priority n.In by posteriority at sense 1 after Anglo-Norman par posteriorité (c1339 or earlier).

Now rare.

I. Opposed to priority.

1. The state or quality of being later or subsequent in time. †by posteriority (Feudal Law), by a later or subsequent, and hence inferior, commitment or claim (opposed to by priority).

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adverb] > after, afterwards, or later

sitheneOE

aftereOE

sithOE

eftOE

latterOE

aftOE

sithencea1170

sithrec1175

thereup?c1225

baftc1275

furtherc1290

eftsoon1297

therewithala1300

afterwardc1300

afterwardsc1300

soc1300

therewithc1369

eftersoonsa1400

suingly?a1425

at after1425

followingly?c1425

afterhand1438

syne1489

by posteriority1523

in sequel1524

still1526

later1527

subsequently1537

senthis?1553

lately1565

subsequent1568

behindc1600

sequelarly1600

posterior1628

in prosecutiona1641

subsequentiallya1683

artera1746

posteriorly1799

ulteriorly1818

later on1829

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun] > lateness or being advanced in time > being later

posteriority1523

posteritya1530

afterness1587

latterness1602

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > types of tenure from two lords

priority1579

posteriority1607

1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xii. f. 23^v If the tenaunt holde of two lordes by knyght seruyce, of one by priorite and of another by posteryorite and dye, the lorde that the tenaunt holdeth of by priorite, shall haue the warde of the body, be it heyre male or heyre female.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclix Al thynges that ben in dyuers tymes & in dyuers places temporel without posteriorite or priorite ben closed therin perpetual nowe.

1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Ccc4/1 Posteriority..is a word of comparison and relation in tenure, the correlatiue whereof is prioritie. For a man holding lands or tenements of two lords, holdeth of his auncienter Lord by prioritie, and of his later Lord by posterioritie.

1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 319 The Preposition..implies..a Posteriority in point of time.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 110 This Priority or Posteriority of Birth comes no less in enquiry to the Ordinary.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 749 I entreat you to make some allowance for the bosom feeling which my vivid recollection of the posteriority of my conversations respecting the advance to the date of the first committee..have spite of myself excited.

1864 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 154 248 On physical grounds I had long been satisfied of the contemporaneity of these deposits, and contended for their posteriority to the Boulder Clay.

1885 G. Salmon Hist. Introd. New Test. xi. 242 To establish the posteriority of two of our Canonical Gospels.

1912 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 9 681 If the relation of a present consciousness to a past reality were never anything more than this simple relation of posteriority, consciousness would offer no significant peculiarity for the consideration of the philosopher.

1955 Geogr. Rev. 45 57 Measurements or estimates of time when used with reference to priority or posteriority (332 b.c., 20 years ago; a.d. 1954, 5 seconds later) are chronologic analogues of locational quantities.

2002 Canad. Ethnic Stud. (Nexis) 34 112 The dating of events enables us to identify a given event's anteriority or posteriority relative to other events, such as the first contacts with an NGO and language courses taken by claimants which preceded their first jobs.

2. Inferiority in order, rank, or importance. Also (esp. in later use): the fact or condition of being regarded or treated as less important than others; a thing that is regarded as less important than others.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [noun] > inferiority in order, rank, or dignity

posteriority1534

under-condition1681

1534 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 123 That the..Chaun^r and Schollers might be befor them.., and so to spite the said May^r and Comminaltie from their prioritie to posterioritie.

1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas xv. 146 How can a Society be imagined without order? and how order without priority and posteriority?

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 598 There must of necessity, be..a Priority and Posteriority..of Dignity as well as Order amongst them.

1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. xiii. 571 I mean that order of priority or posteriority, according to which this application is to be made.

1809 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 99 151 Each base must preserve its relations of priority or posteriority to every other in the series.

1854 Putnam's Monthly June 624/1 It is invariably connected by certain resemblances or differences with other things, or by a certain order of priority or posteriority, in respect to other things.

1909 Daily Chron. 25 Feb. 5/7 The priority given to the one amendment and the posteriority given to the other.

2004 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 16 May 2 Setting priorities is only half the battle... You must then display the courage of your convictions, particularly when it comes to the ‘posteriorities’, projects that aren't at the top of the list.

II. Other uses.

3. The rear; the back parts of the body. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > [noun]

ridgeeOE

backc1000

rigc1300

chinec1475

rigginga1522

posteriority?1533

rigback1591

backward1636

?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Cciii Moyses by the graunt of god dyd merite to se his posterioritie [Fr. merita de ueoir sa posteriorité; cf. post-classical Latin (Vulgate) Exodus 33:23 mea posteriora], the whiche is to vnderstande his workes.

1999 Indonesia & Malay World 27 210 He built a shed or hutch... This was later revealed to be a stylized reduction of Semar's torso, its bowed roof mimicking the clown's characteristic rotund posteriority.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	posteriority
释义	posteriorityn. Brit. /pɒˌstɪərɪˈɒrᵻti/, U.S. /pɑˌstɪriˈɔrədi/, /poʊˌstɪriˈɔrədi/ Forms: 1500s posteriorite, 1500s posterioritie, 1500s posteryorite, 1600s– posteriority. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French posteriorité ; posterior adj., -ity suffix. Etymology: Partly < Anglo-Norman and Middle French posteriorité (French postériorité ) state or quality of being later or subsequent in time (c1339 or earlier in legal use in Anglo-Norman), back parts of the body (?1533 in an apparently isolated attestation, in the passage translated in quot. ?1533 at sense 3; < post-classical Latin posterioritas state or quality of being later (12th cent.; from 13th cent. in British sources), descendants (8th cent. in a British source) < classical Latin posterior posterior adj. + -itās -ity suffix), and partly (in sense 2, which is apparently not attested in either French or Latin) < posterior adj. + -ity suffix. Compare Spanish posterioridad (first half of the 15th cent. or earlier). Compare earlier priority n.In by posteriority at sense 1 after Anglo-Norman par posteriorité (c1339 or earlier). Now rare. I. Opposed to priority. 1. The state or quality of being later or subsequent in time. †by posteriority (Feudal Law), by a later or subsequent, and hence inferior, commitment or claim (opposed to by priority). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adverb] > after, afterwards, or later sitheneOE aftereOE sithOE eftOE latterOE aftOE sithencea1170 sithrec1175 thereup?c1225 baftc1275 furtherc1290 eftsoon1297 therewithala1300 afterwardc1300 afterwardsc1300 soc1300 therewithc1369 eftersoonsa1400 suingly?a1425 at after1425 followingly?c1425 afterhand1438 syne1489 by posteriority1523 in sequel1524 still1526 later1527 subsequently1537 senthis?1553 lately1565 subsequent1568 behindc1600 sequelarly1600 posterior1628 in prosecutiona1641 subsequentiallya1683 artera1746 posteriorly1799 ulteriorly1818 later on1829 the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun] > lateness or being advanced in time > being later posteriority1523 posteritya1530 afterness1587 latterness1602 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > types of tenure from two lords priority1579 posteriority1607 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xii. f. 23^v If the tenaunt holde of two lordes by knyght seruyce, of one by priorite and of another by posteryorite and dye, the lorde that the tenaunt holdeth of by priorite, shall haue the warde of the body, be it heyre male or heyre female. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclix Al thynges that ben in dyuers tymes & in dyuers places temporel without posteriorite or priorite ben closed therin perpetual nowe. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Ccc4/1 Posteriority..is a word of comparison and relation in tenure, the correlatiue whereof is prioritie. For a man holding lands or tenements of two lords, holdeth of his auncienter Lord by prioritie, and of his later Lord by posterioritie. 1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 319 The Preposition..implies..a Posteriority in point of time. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 110 This Priority or Posteriority of Birth comes no less in enquiry to the Ordinary. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 749 I entreat you to make some allowance for the bosom feeling which my vivid recollection of the posteriority of my conversations respecting the advance to the date of the first committee..have spite of myself excited. 1864 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 154 248 On physical grounds I had long been satisfied of the contemporaneity of these deposits, and contended for their posteriority to the Boulder Clay. 1885 G. Salmon Hist. Introd. New Test. xi. 242 To establish the posteriority of two of our Canonical Gospels. 1912 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 9 681 If the relation of a present consciousness to a past reality were never anything more than this simple relation of posteriority, consciousness would offer no significant peculiarity for the consideration of the philosopher. 1955 Geogr. Rev. 45 57 Measurements or estimates of time when used with reference to priority or posteriority (332 b.c., 20 years ago; a.d. 1954, 5 seconds later) are chronologic analogues of locational quantities. 2002 Canad. Ethnic Stud. (Nexis) 34 112 The dating of events enables us to identify a given event's anteriority or posteriority relative to other events, such as the first contacts with an NGO and language courses taken by claimants which preceded their first jobs. 2. Inferiority in order, rank, or importance. Also (esp. in later use): the fact or condition of being regarded or treated as less important than others; a thing that is regarded as less important than others. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [noun] > inferiority in order, rank, or dignity posteriority1534 under-condition1681 1534 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 123 That the..Chaun^r and Schollers might be befor them.., and so to spite the said May^r and Comminaltie from their prioritie to posterioritie. 1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas xv. 146 How can a Society be imagined without order? and how order without priority and posteriority? 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 598 There must of necessity, be..a Priority and Posteriority..of Dignity as well as Order amongst them. 1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. xiii. 571 I mean that order of priority or posteriority, according to which this application is to be made. 1809 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 99 151 Each base must preserve its relations of priority or posteriority to every other in the series. 1854 Putnam's Monthly June 624/1 It is invariably connected by certain resemblances or differences with other things, or by a certain order of priority or posteriority, in respect to other things. 1909 Daily Chron. 25 Feb. 5/7 The priority given to the one amendment and the posteriority given to the other. 2004 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 16 May 2 Setting priorities is only half the battle... You must then display the courage of your convictions, particularly when it comes to the ‘posteriorities’, projects that aren't at the top of the list. II. Other uses. 3. The rear; the back parts of the body. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > [noun] ridgeeOE backc1000 rigc1300 chinec1475 rigginga1522 posteriority?1533 rigback1591 backward1636 ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Cciii Moyses by the graunt of god dyd merite to se his posterioritie [Fr. merita de ueoir sa posteriorité; cf. post-classical Latin (Vulgate) Exodus 33:23 mea posteriora], the whiche is to vnderstande his workes. 1999 Indonesia & Malay World 27 210 He built a shed or hutch... This was later revealed to be a stylized reduction of Semar's torso, its bowed roof mimicking the clown's characteristic rotund posteriority. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1523
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