postfatory

From prefatory, with substitution of the prefix with post- to alter the sense.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊstfət(ə)ɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊstfətɔɹi/

postfatory (not comparable)

1. (rare, formal) Serving as an epilogue or appendix; conclusory, closing.
   • 1963, Hugues Leblanc, “The Myth of Simplicity; Problems of Scientific Philosophy. By Mario Bunge. Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963. Pp. xii, 239.”, in Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie, volume 3, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 201:

     These prefatory and postfatory pages bristle with insights, but they unfortunately tend to be noisy and vituperative. At moments they also sound hasty and a bit "simplistes".

   • 1988, Ralph Cleminson, “London: British Library, Harl. MS 6030, ff. 15-18”, in The Pennington Catalogue: A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections, [London]: School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 162:

     The text ofthe Gospels is in Rumanian, but the rubrics, and the lectionaries and other postfatory material are in Serbian Church Slavonic (with much morphological uncertainty in the colophon) showing Bulgarian influence.

   • 2017, Christoph Pieper, “Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Monasteriensis: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Münster 2012). Astrid Steiner-Weber and Karl A. E. Enenkel, eds. Acta Conventus Neo-Latini 15. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xxxvi + 632 pp. $299.”, in Renaissance Quarterly, volume 70, number 1, University of Chicago Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 253:

     Closely connected to the epigrammatic form of entries in alba are poems that serve as prefatory or postfatory material of early modern prints. Harm-Jan van Dam dedicates his article to this kind of liminary poetry.