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‖ præˈpositus
Also pre-.
[L. præpositus prefect, president, head, chief, in med.L. provost, n. use of pa. pple. of præpōnĕre to place or set over, f. præ pre- + pōnĕre to place.]
The head, chief, president, or provost, in various institutions clerical and civil. Frequent in Anglo-Latin: see provost, the mod.Eng. repr.; also prepost.
1607–72Cowell Interpr., Præpositus Villæ, is some⁓times used for the Constable of a Town, or Petit Constable... It is used sometime for a Reve, or for a chief Officer of the King in a Town, Mannor or Village. 1627M. Wren Serm. bef. King 6 Feare..'tis Gods Præpositus in the School of Graces, it sees that none of them be out of Order, or in any kinde Faulty. 1894R. S. Ferguson Hist. Westmorland 145 By the year 1217 the Præpositus or Reeve at York had been superseded by a mayor. 1906Athenæum 19 May 609/3 It seems almost certain that William the ‘præpositus’ owed his Norman name to a godfather belonging to the Amundeville family. |