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aftercast en · NOUN

Etymology

From after- + cast.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of after-cast.
   alt of after-cast
   • Consequently, the aftercast in lead must here have been made from the model. 2012, J.W. Frederiks, Dutch Silver, page vii:
   • Note that an aftercast is always an indirect cast, while two directly cast bronzes can be only variants. 2016, David A. Scott, Art: Authenticity, Restoration, Forgery, page 430:
   • However, not marking a reproduction or an aftercast "Reproduction" in a visible and indelible manner does constitute an infringement of copyright. 2007, Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Hélène Marraud, Diane Tytgat, The Bronzes of Rodin, page 72:
   • Another group that may contain modern aftercasts are figural units composed of two confronting winged semi-human creatures grasping with one hand stylized trees; animals or birds are set in a triad between them; the scene probably depicts a ritual. 2022, Muscarella, The Lie Became Great, page 113:
2. A consequence or result.
   • The aftercast of the doctors' futile opiates were generally the worst phenomena; I remember her once coming out to the drawing-room sofa, perhaps about midnight; decided for trying that. 1881, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude, Lord Jeffrey, page 265:
   • He who forecasts his own failure has failed in advance, for forecast is the pattern of the aftercast. 1912, Orison Swett Marden, “Why Men Fail”, in Banker and Investor Magazine, page 37:
   • My Lord Bothwell canna gie you this, and Mangertoun canna gie you this, nor Laristoun, no, nor Buccleuch himself; but Trimmie Armstrong o' Whithaugh can, ay, and will too,— gie ye back the whale-ruck and red your feet o' the wight o' Tam o' Copshaw's death, and frae any aftercast that may arise there-aftour, just i' swarth of ae word frae you, lad. 1897, Lord Ernest William Hamilton, The Outlaws of the Marches, page 209:
   • Consulting that strong propensity to immediate gain, whatever may be the aftercast, which governs princes as well as other men, they hesitated not to predict, that the court of Berlin would seize with avidity that portion of Poland which Russia would offer to it, as the price of its dereliction of the Poles. 1795, “History of Europe”, in The Annual Register, volume 37, page 14:
3. An analysis of past events; retrodiction or review.
   • His forecast and aftercast ought both to be employed in building the all-important structure of his character, because that character is to last for ever. Holy Scripture, which is sound reason taught and sanctoined by God Himself, rcommends the same aftercast as well as forethought. 1844, John Bullar, Lay Lectures on Christian Faith and Practice, page 140:
   • He would risk no aftercast, make no reproach; yet there was strange longin in him to make audible some small part of the anguish of his soul. 1876, Stephen Yorke (pseud. for Mary Linskill), Cleveden, page 143:
   • Thus, prediction is similar to forecast which is usually based upon aftercast. 2015, H.J. Hsia, Mass Communications Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Approach:
4. An analysis of past events; retrodiction or review. ▸ An analysis of past meteorological data to determine what the weather was like at a previous time.
   • These two errors may be disentangled if the forecaster does his calculation again after the event using the actual conditions for the night as recorded in the Daily Register. Five stations did this, and the results were called aftercasts. 1968, Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine, page 111:
   • On October 15, 1956, an aftercast was made by the U. S. Weather Bureau Airport Station at Anchorage, Alaska. 1955, Aircraft Accident Report, page 3:
   • After several emails to and telephone conversations involving the Met Office and AAIB, I finally get a copy of the Aftercast report, which the Met Office provides free of charge. 2021, Michelle Bray, Falling From the Sky:
   • An aftercast of the weather indicated that at the time of the accident the ceiling and visibility in the vicinity of Ptarmigan Mountain was unlimited. 1941, Accident Investigation Report, page 2:

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