after sermon

[Eng. after sermon.] A sermon delivered subsequently. "But because our great Lawgiver repeated also other parts of the decalogue in his after -sermons." Jeremy Taylor on the Decalogue: Works, ed. 1839, vol. iii, p. 6. 115 after-silence, s . [Eng. after ; silence.] Silence succeeding to noise and tumult. "It is not in the storm nor in the strife We feel benumb'd, and wish to be no more, But in the after-silence on the shore When all is lost, except a little life." Byron: Lines on Hearing that Lady Byron was Ill.