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preˈposterously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a preposterous order or manner.
1. In an inverted or reversed order or position; with the latter part being the former; hind-side before. Now rare.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 269 So the sense inferreth albeit the wordes be somewhat preposterously placed. 1589Nashe Anat. Absurd. D ij, Those that are called Agrippæ being preposterously borne with their feete forward. 1676Phil. Trans. XI. 767 So preposterously are those Books ranged in this Catalogue. a1716South Serm. (1744) XI. 3 Some indeed preposterously misplace these, and make us partake of the benefit of Christ's priestly office..before we are brought under the scepter of his kingly office. 1829Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1853) 17 Preposterously..deducing the laws of the understanding from a questionable division of logical propositions.
2. Unnaturally, irrationally; perversely; absurdly.
c1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 39 His brother Archigallo..didd preposteruslie exalte and honor the moste obscure and servile persons. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, ii. ii. 112 Whatsoeuer cunning fiend it was That wrought vpon thee so preposterously, Hath got the voyce in hell for excellence. 1615W. Lawson Country Housew. Gard. (1626) 9 They doe preposterously, that bestow more cost and labours,..vpon a Garden than vpon an Orchard. 1661Boyle Style of Script. (1675) 141 Our preposterously partial Memories. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1883) 123 She is preposterously sighing after a stripling with languishing eyes and soft hair, who loves her. 1868Farrar Seekers iii. iii. (1875) 299 Preposterously regarded as a sure criterion of truth. 1873Black Pr. Thule viii, He got up at preposterously early hours. |