Aftercast

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

(art) Alternative form of after-cast..

Definitions by Sense

1. (art) Alternative form of after-cast.
2. A consequence or result.
3. An analysis of past events; retrodiction or review.

Example Sentences

However, not marking a reproduction or an aftercast "Reproduction" in a visible and indelible manner does constitute an infringement of copyright.

Consequently, the aftercast in lead must here have been made from the model.

Note that an aftercast is always an indirect cast, while two directly cast bronzes can be only variants.

Another group that may contain modern aftercasts are figural units composed of two confronting winged semi-human creatures grasping with one hand stylized trees; animals or birds are set in a triad between them; the scene probably depicts a ritual.

Consulting that strong propensity to immediate gain, whatever may be the aftercast, which governs princes as well as other men, they hesitated not to predict, that the court of Berlin would seize with avidity that portion of Poland which Russia would offer to it, as the price of its dereliction of the Poles.

The aftercast of the doctors' futile opiates were generally the worst phenomena; I remember her once coming out to the drawing-room sofa, perhaps about midnight; decided for trying that.

My Lord Bothwell canna gie you this, and Mangertoun canna gie you this, nor Laristoun, no, nor Buccleuch himself; but Trimmie Armstrong o' Whithaugh can, ay, and will too,— gie ye back the whale-ruck and red your feet o' the wight o' Tam o' Copshaw's death, and frae any aftercast that may arise there-aftour, just i' swarth of ae word frae you, lad.

He who forecasts his own failure has failed in advance, for forecast is the pattern of the aftercast.

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