Careful Words

later (n.)

later (adv.)

later (adj.)

But he is risen, a later star of dawn.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): A Morning Exercise.

  "Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Advancement of Learning. Book i. (1605.)