† polyprotheticadj.Obsoleterare characterized by polyprothesy.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > other parts of speech > [adjective] > relating to prepositions > using few or many
polyprothetic1894
oligoprothetic1896
1894 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc.25 61 Thucydides has in general more prepositions than Xenophon,..and in this agrees with the Tragedians, who are polyprothetic.
1896 Classical Rev. Feb. 62/1 The enquiry leads to the general law that prose is polyprothetic and poetry oligoprothetic.