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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

postexistent en · ADJ

Etymology

From post- + existent.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) existing or living afterward
    • But the full meaning of this manifestation was revealed only when the postexistent Christ came to live in his followers. 1972, W. Nicol, The Sēmeia in the fourth gospel: Tradition and redaction, page 137:
    • For as for that conceit of Anaxagoras, of pre and post-existent atoms, endued with all those several forms and qualities of bodies ingenerably and incorruptibly, it was nothing but an adulteration of the genuine Atomical philosophy […] 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC: