Word Meanings - POSTEXIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To exist after; to live subsequently.
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- AFTERCAST
A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower. - AFTERPAINS
The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. - EXIST
exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand 1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift. - EXISTER
One who exists. - EXISTIBLE
Capable of existence. Grew. - AFTERSHAFT
The hypoptilum. - AFTERPIECE
The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment. - AFTER DAMP
An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid. - AFTER-NOTE
One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note. - EXISTENT
Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place. The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent. Dryden. - AFTERWISE
Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late. - AFTERINGS
The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. Grose. - AFTER
To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts - AFTER-EATAGE
Aftergrass. - AFTERGUARD
The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. Totten. - AFTER-DINNER
The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. -- a. - AFTERGAME
A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient. Wotton. Aftergame at Irish, an ancient game very nearly resembling backgammon. Beau. & Fl. - AFTERGRASS
The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath. - AFTERTASTE
A taste which remains in the mouth after eating or drinking. - AFTERMOST
Nearest the stern; most aft. (more info) Gothic aftumist and aftuma, the last, orig. a superlative of of, with 1. Hindmost; -- opposed to foremost. - POSTEXIST
To exist after; to live subsequently. - NONEXISTENCE
1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne. - SELF-EXISTENT
Existing of or by himself,independent of any other being or cause; -- as, God is the only self-existent being. - NONEXISTENT
Not having existence. - CRAFTER
a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman. - COEXIST
To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by with. Of substances no one has any clear idea, farther than of certain simple ideas coexisting together. Locke. So much purity and integrity . . . coexisting with so much decay and so - COEXISTENT
Existing at the same time with another. -- n. - THEREAFTER
1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, - INEXISTENT
Not having being; not existing.