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postprandially en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈpɹæn.di.ə.li/ (General-American)
  • /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈpɹan.dɪ.ə.li/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From postprandial + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In a postprandial manner; after a meal; especially, after dinner.
    • Homage became nightly tangible in bouquets, rings, brooches—things acceptable and (luckier than their donors) accepted. Even Sunday was not barren for Zuleika: modish hostesses gave her postprandially to their guests. 1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson:
    • This dose resulted in a TAZ of 11 mg when administered to healthy adults as an aqueous solution postprandially with little being achieved by administering greater amounts[…]. 2015 June, Cuong D. Tran, Geetha L. Gopalsamy, Elissa K. Mortimer, Graeme P. Young, “The Potential for Zinc Stable Isotope Techniques and Modelling to Determine Optimal Zinc Supplementation”, in Nutrients, volume 7, number 6, →DOI, pages 4271–4295:

Antonyms

preprandially

Relateds

prandial · preprandial · postprandial

Synonyms

postcibally