post-obit
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My first post-obit was cashed by his worthy father.
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever
It has long been my intention to leave behind me my own Memoirs, as a post-obit for my family—a wise intention no doubt, and one which it is not very prudent to procrastinate.
From A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Samuel Smiles
Here misers may their bones inter In shrouds of neat post-obit paper; While, for their beirs, we've quicksilver, That, fast as heart can wish, will caper.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 528, January 7, 1832 by Various
By bill or by bond, by living usury, or by post-obit liquidation, by all the means that private friends or public offices could supply, the sinews of war would have been forthcoming.
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
I won't leave the place till I've set things right—not if I've got to give him a post-obit for five thousand—I won't!—Nobody there?
From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by George MacDonald
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