æfter-weard
. Substitute: I. adj. (1) later, latter :-- Ver novum fore*-*weard lencten vel middewærd lencten, ver adultum æfterweard lencten. Eodem modo et aestas et autumnus vocantur, Wrt. Voc. i. 53, 27. (2) being behind (?), absent :-- Ðeáh ðe hé lícumlíce ðǽr æfterweard (æfweard, v. l.) wǽre quamvis corporaliter absens, Bd. 3, 15; Sch. 264, 6. II. adv. prep. After :-- Hí urnon ealle him æfterweard, Hml. S. 31, 995. Weorþan æfterweard to be after, to pursue, follow :-- Iohannes heów ðæt hors mid ðám spuran and wearð him æfterweard . . . and cwæð tó ðám fleóndum, Ælfc. T. 18, 22: Rä. 16, 14. Petrus wearð æfterweard Peter followed, Hml. Th. i. 374, 6. v. æfte-weard.æ
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