aftercourse

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The course (sequence of events or actions) that follows something

   The course (sequence of events or actions) that follows something; subsequent course.

   • And if she should, which Heaven forbid, O’rethrow me, as the Fidler did, What after-course have I to take, ’Gainst losing all I have at Stake?
   • […] they beheld that young man in those auspicious days, setting out in the paths of glory, with an ardour that promised the happiest progress in his after course!
   • In a few cases I have been fortunate enough to give a vaccine within 24 hours of the initial rigor […]. In these cases there has been an immediate response, and the aftercourse of the disease was profoundly modified.
2. 2

   The final course of a meal.

   • Yet durst I sweare he neuer dranke Tabacco, That smoake at those times was not in request, But for this doting age reseru’d in store: Now ’tis an after-course at euery feast, To some it may doe good, but hurt to more.
   • […] Menippus set aside the wafercakes with his hand, saying; that a sweet aftercourse makes a stinking breath:
   • I made him now sit down by me, and as he had gather’d courage from such extreme intimacy, he gave me an aftercourse of pleasure, in a natural burst of tender gratitude and joy, at the new scenes of bliss I had opened to him
3. 3

   A subsequent course of study.

   • […] although her education had only the finish of the common schools, yet she had superior teachers, who directed her in an after-course of reading and study, which took her far beyond the ordinary school course.

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