单词 | postposited |
释义 | postpositedadj. Chiefly Grammar. Esp. of a word or letter: placed after or at the end of something. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adjective] > succeeding or subsequent > following in order subsequentc1450 posterior1578 succeeding1639 postposited1892 1892 W. M. Lindsay in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 14 161 The post-posited relative, to judge from the dramatists' versification, was fused with the preceding word. 1961 C. S. Ford et al. Outl. Cultural Materials p. xix The postposited numbers indicate the specific category slips will also be found in the Trobriands File. 1981 G. P. Murdock Atlas World Cultures viii. 100 A postposited lowercase m indicates that domestic animals are milked other than sporadically. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1892 |
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