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单词 after-course
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after-coursen.

Brit. /ˈɑːftəkɔːs/, /ˈaftəkɔːs/, U.S. /ˈæftərˌkɔrs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: after- prefix, course n.
Etymology: < after- prefix + course n.
1. A later course in a meal; spec. the final course; a dessert. Frequently figurative.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > course > [noun] > course after main
after-mess1489
banquet1523
after-course1580
fruit1587
dessert1600
sweet1832
confectionery1847
afters1909
pudding1934
follows1946
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Desserte de table, the banquet or after course.
1616 T. Adams Dis. Soule 55 Coole his luxurious heate with Solomons after-course, the banket of his pleasures being done.
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole iii. xxi. 594 The most excellent sorts of Peares, serve..to make an after-course for their masters table.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxviii. 271 Menippus set aside the wafercakes with his hand, saying; that a sweet aftercourse makes a stinking breath.
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 197 He gave me an after-course of pleasure, in a natural burst of tender gratitude and joy.
1870 W. H. Holcombe In Both Worlds xii. 152 The after-courses, of sweets and luxuries, were brought on by female servants, lovely in person and graceful in manner.
1886 Nature 7 Jan. 228/1 Let us turn back for a few brief moments to a light banquet of the reason, and entertain ourselves as a sort of after-course.
1906 E. Saltus Historia Amoris i. vii. 83 There were after-courses of ballerine and song.
2007 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 14 Aug. The berries..were often eaten mashed with cream and sugar as an aftercourse at the celebratory meal of the first harvest.
2. A way of life or mode of behaviour that is followed at a later point in time; the later part of the development of anything that continues in time, as a person's life, a disease, etc.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun] > subsequent event or act > subsequent history, course, or direction
success1555
after-course1624
1624 J. Robinson Def. Doctr. Synode at Dort iii. 106 Their after course of Apostasie from Christ.
1678 T. D'Urfey Trick for Trick ii. 13 Yet, dear Father, your own experience in my after-courses..may yield some satisfaction; for I'll reform my self in every thing.
1708 F. Hutchinson Short View Pretended Spirit of Prophecy ii. 23 In the after-course of his Life, his violent Devotions were succeeded by an evil Spirit of Despair.
1749 T. Short Gen. Chronol. Hist. Air II. 274 An impetuous Diarrhœa..often confounded Nature in all her Measures, during the whole After-course of the Disease.
1823 European Mag. & London Rev. Feb. 120/1 No circumstance in his previous conduct, or aftercourse of life, can furnish us with the least pretence of charging him with such aberration.
1859 T. S. Henderson Life E. Henderson 42 In this brief record we have a fore-shadowing of their after-course.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vii. [Aeolus] 134 That small act..determined the whole aftercourse of both our lives.
1942 E. Lasker Chess for Fun & Chess for Blood (1962) xi. 214 The fact of having announced erroneously a checkmate..shall not affect the after-course of the game.
2004 S. Pressfield Virtues of War (2005) 110 A melancholy seems to descend in the aftercourse of success.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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