posteriore

There are still certain problems, which, taken as consequences of this truth assumed as proven, are not without their use in exciting belief, as it were, a posteriore; and which, although they may seem to be involved in much doubt and obscurity, nevertheless readily admit of having reasons and causes assigned for them.

On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals 2005

There are still certain problems, which, taken as consequences of this truth assumed as proven, are not without their use in exciting belief, as it were, a posteriore; and which, although they may seem to be involved in much doubt and obscurity, nevertheless readily admit of having reasons and causes assigned for them.

The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various

THERE are still certain problems, which, taken as consequences of this truth assumed as proven, are not without their use in exciting belief, as it were, a posteriore; and which, although they may seem to be involved in much doubt and obscurity, nevertheless readily admit of having reasons and causes assigned for them.

XVI. The Circulation of the Blood Is Further Proved from Certain Consequences 1909

Et in hac posteriore significatione vocabulum (naturae) non ipsam hominis substantiam, sed aliquid, quod in natura aut substantia fixum inhaeret, denotat. the temper, condition, defect, or vice of any thing implanted and inhering in the nature, as when we say: The serpent's nature is to strike, man's nature is to sin and is sin.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

Et in hac posteriore significatione vocabulum (naturae) non ipsam hominis substantiam, sed aliquid, quod in natura aut substantia fixum inhaeret, denotat.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

"Druidæ pecuniam mutuo accipiebant in posteriore vita reddituri."

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

[152] Wellauer: _denuntians lucrum, quod prius erit morte posteriore_: _i. e._ victoriam quam sequetur mors.

Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1840

"Hartley," asked another, with a loud laugh, "is it true that your cousin, on bringing a message to young Phil M'Clutchy, pulled his nose, and kicked him _a posteriore_ round the room?"

Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

For it is much more high and Philosophical to discover things _a priore_, then _a posteriore_.

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Robert Boyle 1659

( "Priorem misericordiam posteriore superasti" - Ruth, iii. 10); meaning to say, "that if the compassion of Mary was great towards the miserable when living in this world, it is much greater now that she reigns in heaven"

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