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Webster 1913 Edition


Postgeniture

Post-gen′i-ture

(?; 135)
,
Noun.
[Pref.
post-
+ L.
genitura
birth, geniture.]
The condition of being born after another in the same family; – distinguished from primogeniture.
[R.]
Sir T. Browne.

Definition 2024


postgeniture

postgeniture

English

Noun

postgeniture (uncountable)

  1. The fact of being born after someone else of the same bloodline.
    • 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
      A person of high spirit and honour, naturally a King, though fatally prevented by the harmlesse chance of post-geniture [...].