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Postdiluvian

Postdiluvial \Post`di*lu"vi*al\, Postdiluvian \Post`di*lu"vi*an\, a. [Pref. post- + diluvial, diluvian.] Being or happening after the flood in Noah's days.

Postdiluvian

Postdiluvian \Post`di*lu"vi*an\, n. One who lived after the flood.

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postdiluvian

n. One who lived after the Biblical Flood.

Usage examples of "postdiluvian".

Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity of the whale, in his own osseous postdiluvian reality, as set down by the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller.

Stephen was 22 Bloom would be 374 and in 1920 when Stephen would be 38, as Bloom then was, Bloom would be 646 while in 1952 when Stephen would have attained the maximum postdiluvian age of 70 Bloom, being 1190 years alive having been born in the year 714, would have surpassed by 221 years the maximum antediluvian age, that of Methusalah, 969 years, while, if Stephen would continue to live until he would attain that age in the year 3072 A.

Ham is but to concede the total moral depravity of the entire human race, as emanated from Noah in the postdiluvian age.

That in that true, original Eden some of the early generations of men attained to a stature and longevity unequaled in any countries known to postdiluvian history is by no means scientifically incredible.

Gorgons and Hydras of the skies as interesting problems yet unsolved, as well as to consider that the belief in lunar influence is a fragment of a true system of natural philosophy which has become more and more debased in postdiluvian times.