单词 | after the fact |
释义 | > as lemmasafter the fact b. after the fact: after an action is performed or an event occurs; with hindsight; Law after the commission of a crime or offence.See also accessory after the fact n. at accessory n. and adj. Phrases 2, accessary after the fact n. at accessary n. and adj. Phrases 2. ΚΠ 1565 T. Stapleton tr. F. Staphylus Apol. f. 138 Demosthenes the lerned and eloquent oratour saith, wise men deliberat before the facte and fooles after the facte. 1632 T. E. Lawes Womens Rights v. xxx. 393 Britton tieth the commencement of this Appeale to fortie dayes after the fact. 1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. xxiii. 212 They take the surest Method to prophetise, which is to divulge the Oracle after the Fact. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xii. 92 Any breach of ecclesiastical discipline might safely be dared, in the hope that an absolution after the fact might be won from some successor less austere than the saintly Leo. 1967 Brain 90 140 The speech hemisphere [of the brain] would routinely confabulate after the fact, and state that a particular word had been seen to fit the object to which the left hand already had pointed. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 May 13/1 The random elements in any life.., the ways in which any meaning, any consistency, we ascribe to our choices arrives only after the fact. 2007 S. Dunne Reaper (2009) xvi. 246 Arresting a killer, after the fact, can and does prevent further crimes. < as lemmas |
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