Definition of "postmeridian" []

• Of, relating to, or taking place in the afternoon. (adjective)

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• "It was three minutes past three postmeridian in the operating room of the new Wireless Station recently installed at the United States Naval"
• "If some of these may, perchance, find a kernel of profit out of the mass of chaff attendant, my idle half-hours in the postmeridian of life will not have been entirely misspent."
• "It extended from the _prima luce_, from the earliest dawn of radiance that streaked the "severing clouds in yonder east," through the sun's matin, meridian, postmeridian, and vesper circuit; from the disappearance of Lucifer in the re-illumined skies, to his evening entree in the character of Hesperus."