Word Meanings - POSTTERTIARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Following, or more recent than, the Tertiary; Quaternary.

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• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• RECENTNESS
  Quality or state of being recent.
• TERTIARY
  Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary. (more info) 1. Being of the third formation, order, or rank;
• FOLLOWING
  1. One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. Macaulay. 2. Vocation; business; profession.
• FOLLOWING SURFACE
  See ABOVE
• RECENTLY
  Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices recently received.
• RECENT
  Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells. (more info) 1. Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite,
• RECENTER
  To center again; to restore to the center. Coleridge.
• QUATERNARY
  Later than, or subsequent to, the Tertiary; Post-tertiary; as, the Quaternary age, or Age of man. (more info) containing four, fr. quaterni four each, fr. quattuor four: cf. F. 1. Consisting of four; by fours, or in sets of four.
• FOLLOWER
  1. One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer. 2. A sweetheart; a beau. A. Trollope. The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston. A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.
• FOLLOW
  fylgan; akin to D. volgen, OHG. folg, G. folgen, Icel. fylgja, Sw. 1. To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with ; to accompany; to attend. It waves me forth again; I'll follow it. Shak. 2. To endeavor
• POSTTERTIARY
  Following, or more recent than, the Tertiary; Quaternary.
• PRECENTORSHIP
  The office of a precentor.
• PRECENTOR
  A leader of a choir; a directing singer. Specifically: The leader of the choir in a cathedral; -- called also the chanter or master of the choir. Hook. The leader of the congregational singing in Scottish and other churches.
• TRECENTIST
  A member of the trecento, or an imitator of its characteristics.
• PRETERTIARY
  Earlier than Tertiary.
• UNDERFOLLOW
  To follow closely or immediately after. Wyclif.
• TRECENTO
  The fourteenth century, when applied to Italian art, literature, etc. It marks the period of Dante, Petrarch, and boccaccio in literature, and of Giotto in painting.