postliminary, a.
(pəʊstˈlɪmɪnərɪ)
[f. L. post after + līmen, līmin- threshold + -ary1; but in sense 1 associated with postliminium.
The etymological derivatives of L. postlīminium are postliminiar, -iary, -iate, -iation, -ious; and those of L. post + līmen (opposed to preliminary, etc.), postliminary, -liminate, -limination, -liminous. But in some cases erroneous use confuses the two series, and exchanges the senses.]
1. erron. Pertaining to or involving the right of postliminium; postliminiary.
| 1702 Woodroffe Daniel's 70 Weeks Ep. A ij b, I trust, 'twill not be long e're the Jews themselves shall return to their Postliminary Right. 1807 F. Wrangham Serm. Transl. Script. 21 Admitted to the postliminary perception of her inalienable rights. 1860 Woolsey Introd. Internat. Law §145. 333 The rights and obligation of a state restored in this postliminary way. |
2. Subsequent: opposed to preliminary.
| 1826 Scott Woodst. xvi. note, The rere-supper was a postliminary banquet,..which made its appearance at ten or eleven. 1827 ― Jrnl. 23 May I. 396, I found I had mislaid a number of the said postliminary affair. |