postexistent

adj

postexistent

adj

Etymology From post- + existent.

1

existing or living afterward

  • 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:
  • 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:

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