Obs. [AFTER- 9, 6.]
1. Posterity, seed, descendants. Cf. offspring.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. viii. 43. If he should destroy the whole world and leaue no afterspring to call vpon him. Ibid. (1587), De Mornay, xxvii. 437. The afterspring of his children that are long hence to come.
2. (a·fter-spri:ng.) A second and later spring. Also fig.
1604. W. Yonge, Diary, 1. Never a better after-spring seen in any man’s memory, at the end of June.
a. 1670. Hacket, Life of Williams, II. 30 (D.). To recreate him, and to put an after-spring into his decaying spirits.
