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ended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham. If [the crown] should not stand in thy posterity. Shak.

ingly. [Obs.] This said spirit was not given alonely unto him, but unto all his heirs and posterity. Latimer.

at out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. "Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day." South. -- To beat the dust. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. -- To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on fo…

To hand down; to transmit. To bequeath posterity somewhat to remember it. Glanvill.

darkly. [Obs.] A wondrous vision which did close imply The course of all her fortune and posterity. Spenser.

The state of being condemned. His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of condemnation. W. Irving.

evolve on him in the course of descent. Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity! South.

concord of. Go on both in hand, O nations, never be disunited, be the praise . . . of all posterity! Milton.

ht, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness. All the posterity of our fist parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life. Sir W. Raleigh. As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lovers' lips. Shelley. Annular eclipse. (Astron.) See under Annular. -- Cycle…

; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion. [Obs.] A perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity. South.

ant; mild; favorable; not severe; as, an indulgent parent. Shak. The indulgent censure of posterity. Waller. The feeble old, indulgent of their ease. Dryden.

One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (Gen. xix. 37.) Also used adjectively.

precedential transactions. All their actions in that time are not precedential to warrant posterity. Fuller.

recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus, whose praises . . . have made him precious to posterity. Dryden.

rds in proper places make the true definition of style. Swift. It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work. I. Disraeli.

sun and shield. Ps. lxxiv. 11. I will never consent to put out the sun of sovereignity to posterity. Eikon Basilike. Sun and planet wheels (Mach.), an ingenious contrivance for converting reciprocating motion, as that of the working beam of a steam engine, into rotatory motion. It consists of a toothed wheel (called th…

nions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.

y ansectors was a tenant, and a servant, and held his lands as a villain to his lord, his posterity also must do so, though accidentally they become noble. Jer. Taylor.