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Following a meal
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postprandial
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. after a meal, especially after dinner
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. following a meal (especially dinner); "his postprandial cigar"; "took a postprandial walk" [ant: preprandial ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Postprandial \Post*pran"di*al\, a. [Pref. post- + prandial.] Happening, or done, after dinner; after-dinner; as, postprandial speeches.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN gall ▪ Our study also showed that postprandial gall bladder contraction was suppressed for at least four hours after octreotide injection. ▪ Like others, we saw postprandial gall bladder filling rather than contraction ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also post-prandial , 1820, from post- "after" + Latin prandium "luncheon" (usually bread, fish, or cold meat, taken around noon), from *pram "early" (from PIE *pre- , variant of root per- (1) "forward, through;" see per ) + edere "to eat" (see edible ) ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Postprandial (noun form: postprandium ) means after eating a meal while preprandial is before a meal.
Usage examples of postprandial.
The ladies were already in their rooms having their postprandial nap, and Anna was hovering, ready to close the door behind them.
Tim and his noble guests dawdled over their postprandial wines and cordials in the lamplit dining chamber, tall bonfires threw leaping, dancing shadows in both main and rear courtyards, where lancers and dragoons, Ahrmehnee and Kindred milled and laughed and shouted, gorging themselves on coarse bread and dripping chunks carved from the whole oxen slowly revolving on the spits, guzzling tankards of foaming beer, tart cider and watered wine.
And now, sir, you must excuse me while I prepare for my postprandial devotions.
Detective Superintendent Sandy Galloway was halfway down his postprandial glass of Gaol Ila.
While the others lay under the trees, taking a postprandial snooze, Spencer Maynard persuaded Comfort to accompany him a bit farther down the arroyo to a secluded spot not far from the stream that flowed by its mouth.
Suppertime was over and some postprandial critique now vehemently in progress.
Hal sometimes gets ritualistic and almost hallucinatory, the postprandial farewell routine.
He always took longer than others with his postprandial toilet, and there were wagers concerning what he did in there.
Aleck soon realized, however, that he was beginning to experience something more than the usual postprandial bliss and lassitude.
Sir Walter Raleigh claims harmful effects for it, but I have always found a postprandial bowl an excellent aid to digestion, especially if smoked in a clay pipe.
They drained the cups and dropped to the grass for a postprandial snooze.
Lewrie took some bum fod- der in his hand and made a postprandial journey to the heads up by the beakhead under the jib-boom.
The whole thing to Hal sometimes gets ritualistic and almost hallucinatory, the postprandial farewell routine.
Wilcox refused to have his postprandial constitutional destroyed by an underling suddenly gone bonkers.