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ism, A. D. 325, altered and confirmed by the Council of Constantinople, A. D. 381, and by subsequent councils.

capable of flight. Notornis Mantelli was first known as a fossil bird of New Zealand, but subsequently a few individuals were found living on the southern island. It is supposed to be now nearly or quite extinct.

A tribe of Indians who, when first known, lived on the Ottawa River. Most of them subsequently migrated to the southwestern shore of Lake Superior.

theory that the egg contains the whole embryo of the future organism and the germs of all subsequent offsprings and is merely awakened to activity by the spermatozoön; -- opposed to spermism or animalculism.

ertaining to dolphin oil or porpoise oil; -- said of an acid (called also delphinic acid) subsequently found to be identical with valeric acid. Watts.

A printing surface in relief, obtained by photographic means and subsequent manipulations. Knight.

Pertaining to, or designating, a substance obtained from certain fatty substances, and subsequently shown to be a mixture of suberic and adipic acids.

To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing. Planked shad, shad split open, fastened to a plank, and roasted before a wood fire.

and replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the chromosome, to subsequent generations. In bacteria, plasmids often carry the genes for antibiotic resistance; they are exploited in genetic engineering as the vehicles for introduction of extraneous DNA into cells, to alter the genetic makeup of…

n the plains and deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation. Bartlett.

A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished. Burrill. Tomlins.

A second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake.

The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.

Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.

belonging to a period subsequent to the Babylonian captivity or exile (b. c. 597 or about 586-about 537).

To exist after; to live subsequently. [Obs. or R.]

Subsequent existence.

Contrived, done, or existing subsequently. "Postliminious after applications of them to their purposes." South.

After birth; subsequent to birth; as, postnatal infanticide; postnatal diseases.

Subsequent. "The graces and gifts of the spirit are postnate." [Archaic] Jer. Taylor.