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English
Adjective
prae-mortem (not comparable)
- Rare spelling of premortem.
1907, Charles G. Hill, “Presidential Address”, in Proceedings of the American Medico-Psychological Association at the Sixty-Third Annual Meeting Held in Washington, D. C., May 7-10, 1907, American Medico-Psychological Association, page 92:I am convinced that the dead-house has had its day, and that prae-mortem, rather than post-mortem studies should engage our attention.
1967, Encounter, volume 28, page 36, column 1:In intellectual work, as in work of most other kinds, one condition for success is the ability to lay out, to the best advantage, the short span of a human being’s working lifetime between infancy and death (or, worse than death itself, prae-mortem senility).
2006, Peter Schäfer, Elisabeth Müller-Luckner, editors, Mystical Approaches to God: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Oldenbourgh Wissenschaftsverlag, →ISBN, page 42:[…] God, or the ascent apocalypses with the prae-mortem ascent to heaven of an elect hero.