prae-mortem

See also: præ-mortem

English

Adjective

prae-mortem (not comparable)

1. 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.