postprandialadj.

Brit.

/ˌpəʊs(t)ˈprandɪəl/, U.S.

/ˌpoʊs(t)ˈprændiəl/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: post- prefix, prandial adj.

Etymology: < post- prefix + prandial adj. Compare post-classical Latin postprandius (1345 in a British source). Compare preprandial adj. and earlier anteprandial adj.

Frequently Medicine and Biology. In gen. use often humorous.

Done, made, taken, happening, etc., in the period after a meal.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > meal > meal-time > [adjective] > before or after meal

after-dinner1633

postprandial1820

preprandial1820

post-cenal1848

pre-dinner1905

pre-lunch1922

1820 S. T. Coleridge Let. 14 Jan. (1895) 704 The day including prandial and post-prandial.

1864 Reader 9 July 49 A capital postprandial speaker.

1890 N. Moore in Dict. National Biogr. XXI. 31/2 Men far advanced in post~prandial potations.

1917 G. B. Shaw What I really wrote about War (1931) 193 The whole thing was mere postprandial brag, war-game and club-fender gossip.

1969 R. F. Chapman Insects ii. 32 Phytophagous insects have a period of postprandial quiescence.

2003 Meetings & Convent. (Nexis) 1 Sept. 79 Choose a light, plated breakfast, so attendees can eat while working and avoid postprandial stupor.

Derivatives

postˈprandially adv. after a meal.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > meal > meal-time > [adverb] > after meal

postprandially1849

1849 Littell's Living Age 7 July 19/2 Test however the amount of information possessed on these points, by discussing them postprandially at most of the tables of forty of the fifty-two counties.

1914 Geogr. Jrnl. 43 270 It is not easy for an explorer, attired in immaculate evening costume..to bring home to an audience comfortably seated and post-prandially pleasant and content, all that is meant by a river-road full of dangerous rapids and unfordable pot-holes.

1990 Jrnl. Neuroendocrinol. 2 788/1 Neuronal cholecystokinin-like immunoreactivity is postprandially released from primate hypothalamus.

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

单词	postprandial
释义	postprandialadj. Brit. /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈprandɪəl/, U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈprændiəl/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: post- prefix, prandial adj. Etymology: < post- prefix + prandial adj. Compare post-classical Latin postprandius (1345 in a British source). Compare preprandial adj. and earlier anteprandial adj. Frequently Medicine and Biology. In gen. use often humorous. Done, made, taken, happening, etc., in the period after a meal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > meal-time > [adjective] > before or after meal after-dinner1633 postprandial1820 preprandial1820 post-cenal1848 pre-dinner1905 pre-lunch1922 1820 S. T. Coleridge Let. 14 Jan. (1895) 704 The day including prandial and post-prandial. 1864 Reader 9 July 49 A capital postprandial speaker. 1890 N. Moore in Dict. National Biogr. XXI. 31/2 Men far advanced in post~prandial potations. 1917 G. B. Shaw What I really wrote about War (1931) 193 The whole thing was mere postprandial brag, war-game and club-fender gossip. 1969 R. F. Chapman Insects ii. 32 Phytophagous insects have a period of postprandial quiescence. 2003 Meetings & Convent. (Nexis) 1 Sept. 79 Choose a light, plated breakfast, so attendees can eat while working and avoid postprandial stupor. Derivatives postˈprandially adv. after a meal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > meal-time > [adverb] > after meal postprandially1849 1849 Littell's Living Age 7 July 19/2 Test however the amount of information possessed on these points, by discussing them postprandially at most of the tables of forty of the fifty-two counties. 1914 Geogr. Jrnl. 43 270 It is not easy for an explorer, attired in immaculate evening costume..to bring home to an audience comfortably seated and post-prandially pleasant and content, all that is meant by a river-road full of dangerous rapids and unfordable pot-holes. 1990 Jrnl. Neuroendocrinol. 2 788/1 Neuronal cholecystokinin-like immunoreactivity is postprandially released from primate hypothalamus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1820
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