Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To place before or in front of something else; prefix.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To place or set before; to prefix.
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- verb transitive, obsolete To place or set before; to prefix.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb place before another constituent in the sentence
Etymologies
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Examples
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There is no instance of a non-quantifying adjective preposed to the noun in Etruscan, whereas quantifying adjectives like numerals may prepose the noun as demonstratives do.
Ipa ama hen 2010
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Pullum explains in precise and formal terms: "In English you can take not only an adjunct but also a predicative complement or a nonfinite catenative complement and prepose them pop them at the front of the clause for a special effect."
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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Pullum explains in precise and formal terms: "In English you can take not only an adjunct but also a predicative complement or a nonfinite catenative complement and prepose them pop them at the front of the clause for a special effect."
Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered 2008
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` Senhor Pumpkin, 'says he, ` you are Conrad ob de Mountains,' -- ('cause he guess who he was by dat time); ` how you prepose to go ober de mountains? '
The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America 1859
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Even the neo-classicals back away from this idea - which is why they prepose the much more wooly idea that interest and aggrandizement of goods is the same.
Limited, Inc. 2010
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What would you prepose to stop or cut down all that waste?
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I want some real action and je prepose a two night extravaganza, not unlike the leaders debates.
Progressive Bloggers 2009
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"I prepose we support a one-month limit on going steady.
ronin622 Diary Entry ronin622 2003
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