ppl. a. [AFTER- 8, 3.]
1. Born after the father’s death, posthumous; in Rom. Law, also, Born after the father’s last will.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gram., xlvii. 275. Posthumus, Æfterboren, sé þe bið ʓeboren æfter bebyrʓedum fæder.
a. 1581. Campian, Hist. Irel., II. ii. (1633), 73. Issue two daughters, and an after-borne son called Arthur.
1880. Muirhead, Ulpian, xxii. § 15. After-born descendants … such children in the womb as, were they already born, would be in our potestas. Ibid., Gaius, II. § 241. By a stranger after-born we mean a person who will not on birth be one of the sui heredes of the testator.
2. Younger, of later birth.
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj., 31. Quhen the Lord … is willing to marie his eldest dochter or his after born dochter.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., II. 251. Which daughter shall resign such inheritance to her after-born brother, or divide it with her after-born sisters, according to the usual rule of descents.
1882. Mrs. Haweis, in Belgravia, July, 36. Chaucer is spoken of by his contemporaries and by the great afterborns.
