postnate

English

Etymology

From Latin postnatus (“second or subsequently born”), from post (“after”) + natus (“born”).

Adjective

postnate (not comparable)

1. (archaic) subsequent
   • 1647, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse Concerning Prayer Ex Tempore:

     The graces and gifts of the spirit are postnate.

   • 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 32:

     […] in the concertation for the for the munities of postnate generations, he sustained a despoliation of his possessions.

References

• “postnate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Patteson, ante-post, antepost, petatons