postexistent
English
Etymology
post- + existent
Adjective
postexistent (not comparable)
- existing or living afterward
- Postexistent atoms — Cudworth.
- 1972, W. Nicol, The Sēmeia in the fourth gospel: Tradition and redaction (page 137)
- But the full meaning of this manifestation was revealed only when the postexistent Christ came to live in his followers.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for postexistent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)