Obs. [AFTER- 2, 9.] One coming after, a successor; pl. posterity.
1382. Wyclif, Levit. xxii. 3. Sey to hem and to the aftercomers of hem.
1563. Man, Musculus Com. Pl., 13 a. All their after comers gat the same bleamishe and corruption.
1617. Guillim, Displ. Herald., To Reader. I have broken the Ice, and made way to some after-commers of greter gifts and riper judgment.
1703. Maundrell, Journey (1721), 68. They leave very little to be added by After-comers.
c. 1705. Berkeley, in Fraser, Life, 448. The passage of after-comers is made more secure and easy.