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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)
- 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 [...].
- 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus: