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postfatory

UK/ˈpəʊstfət(ə)ɹi/US/ˈpoʊstfətɔɹi/

postfatory adjective: serving as an epilogue or appendix; conclusory, closing.

Adjective

postfatory (not comparable)

  1. (formal, rare) Serving as an epilogue or appendix; conclusory, closing.
    • These prefatory and postfatory pages bristle with insights, but they unfortunately tend to be noisy and vituperative. At moments they also sound hasty and a bit "simplistes".1963, Hugues Leblanc, “The Myth of Simplicity; Problems of Scientific Philosophy. By Mario Bunge. Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963. Pp. xii, 239.”, in Dialogue: Canadian...
    • The text ofthe Gospels is in Rumanian, but the rubrics, and the lectionaries and other postfatory material are in Serbian Church Slavonic (with much morphological uncertainty in the colophon) showing Bulgarian influence.1988, Ralph Cleminson, “London: British Library, Harl. MS 6030, ff. 15-18”, in The Pennington Catalogue: A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections, [London]: School...

Origin of postfatory

From prefatory, with substitution of the prefix with post- to alter the sense.

Questions about postfatory

What does postfatory mean?
Postfatory means serving as an epilogue or appendix; conclusory, closing.
What part of speech is postfatory?
Postfatory is an adjective.
How do you pronounce postfatory?
Postfatory is pronounced /ˈpəʊstfət(ə)ɹi/ (UK).

Words near postfatory in the dictionary

  1. postfascism
  2. postfascist
  3. postfascists
  4. postfatigue
  5. postfatigued
  6. postfatory
  7. postfault
  8. postfeast
  9. postfeasts
  10. postfebrile
  11. postfederal

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