aftercourse

aftercourse noun: the course (sequence of events or actions) that follows something; subsequent course.

Noun

aftercourse (plural aftercourses)

The course (sequence of events or actions) that follows something; subsequent course.
- And if she should, which Heaven forbid,
  O’rethrow me, as the Fidler did,
  What after-course have I to take,
  ’Gainst losing all I have at Stake?1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London: W. Rogers, Canto 3, page 201
- […] they beheld that young man in those auspicious days, setting out in the paths of glory, with an ardour that promised the happiest progress in his after course!1761, James Fordyce, The Folly, Infamy, and Misery of Unlawful Pleasure, Boston: Edes and Gill, page 19
(archaic) The final course of a meal.
- Yet durst I sweare he neuer dranke Tabacco,
  That smoake at those times was not in request,
  But for this doting age reseru’d in store:
  Now ’tis an after-course at euery feast,
  To some it may doe good, but hurt to more.1625, John Stradling, Divine Poemes, London: William Stansby, Class 5, p. 197
- […] Menippus set aside the wafercakes with his hand, saying; that a sweet aftercourse makes a stinking breath:1655, Thomas Moffett, chapter 28, in Healths Improvement, London: Samuel Thomson, page 271
Synonyms:

dessert
(obsolete) A subsequent course of study.
- […] although her education had only the finish of the common schools, yet she had superior teachers, who directed her in an after-course of reading and study, which took her far beyond the ordinary school course.1883, Frances Willard, chapter 17, in Women and Temperance, Hartford, CT: Park Publishing, page 208
- […] I am confident that the nation will not be satisfied until we have a complete system, not only of elementary education, but an after course of training which will so prepare all the young blind of average ability that when they arrive at a suitable age for business they will become producers...1892, F. J. Campbell, “The Education of the Blind” in C. E. Shelly (ed.), Transactions of the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, Section 4, pp....

Examples of aftercourse in a sentence

In these cases there has been an immediate response, and the aftercourse of the disease was profoundly modified.1916, George Henry Sherman, chapter 8, in Vaccine Therapy in General Practice, Detroit: MI, page 154:
I have often thought since on looking back over that strange time that it was that small act, trivial in itself, that striking of that match, that determined the whole aftercourse of both our lives.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, page 134:
A melancholy seems to descend in the aftercourse of success.2004, Steven Pressfield, The Virtues of War, New York: Doubleday, Book 4, Chapter 11, p. 110:

Synonyms of aftercourse

dessert

Forms of aftercourse

plural	aftercourses

Origin of aftercourse

From after- + course.

Questions about aftercourse

What does aftercourse mean?: Aftercourse means the course (sequence of events or actions) that follows something; subsequent course.
How do you use aftercourse in a sentence?: In these cases there has been an immediate response, and the aftercourse of the disease was profoundly modified.
What part of speech is aftercourse?: Aftercourse is a noun.
What is the plural of aftercourse?: The plural of aftercourse is aftercourses.

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