Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
impostume . - See
posthume .
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Examples
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Last month, the Vatican has recognised that the theory of evolution is compatible with the Bible, but without requiring postume apology to Charles Darwin's, which in the nineteenth century, was attacked by the Church of England for its arguments that were in contradiction with the theory of biblical creation.
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RESUME: Lorsque Ritsuka, 12 ans découvre le message postume de son frère ainé Seimei indiquant qu'il a été victime d'un meutre, il s'engage dans un monde sombre de sort et de magie.
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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Then the holy man appeared to him with a little staff that he held, which had the sign of Thau, and touched therewith the place of his pain, and the postume brake, and he received anon full health, but the sign of Thau abode alway in the same place.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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What Horace says is, Eheu fugaces, anni labuntur postume, postume: -- Years glide away, and are lost to me, lost to me.
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866
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Opere/Edite e postume/di Giacinto Casella/Già Accademico della
The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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