单词 | prepose |
释义 | preposev.ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > appoint a person to an office [verb (transitive)] > appoint over another setc1000 preposea1492 superimpose1844 a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xcii. f. cxxviiv/1 The holy man..ordeyned there relygyouses, to the whyche he preposed [Fr. preposa] & gaaf for abbot the holy man Samuell. 1655 T. Fuller Hist. Waltham-Abby 6 in Church-hist. Brit. A Dean, in Latin, Decanus, hath his name from Δέκα ten, over which number he is properly to be preposed. 2. a. transitive. Now chiefly Grammar. To place before or in front of (something else); to preface, to prefix. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > suggestion, proposal > suggest [verb (transitive)] suggest1526 prepose?1541 propose1566 propound1585 offer1660 vote1698 suppose1762 the world > space > relative position > front > be in front of [verb (transitive)] > place in front (of) foresetc825 to lay … beforec1000 again-puta1425 again-seta1425 preponea1513 prefer?1541 prepose?1541 prefix1604 prefacea1658 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > precede or follow in order [verb (transitive)] > precede in order > put or place before prepose?1541 ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Divv, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens But yf any thynge be done presently thou shalt prepose [Fr. tu proposeras] two fynalytees of curacyon. 1594 W. Percy Sonnets to Fairest Coelia To Rdr. sig. Aij I did deeme it most conuenient to præpose mine Epistle, onely to beseech you to account of them [sc. poems] as of toyes. 1662 H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum 218 It is either prefixed or preposed to a sentence. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I ii. iv. 37 To words beginning with a vowel, the Æoles were wont to prepose a Digamma. 1786 J. Strutt Biographical Dict. II. 377 Van, Von, Van De..are only articles preposed to the Dutch, Flemish, and German names. 1856 C. Richardson Dict. Suppl. at Under Wiclif preposes Under..to numerous words rendered from the Lat. compounds in Sub. 1946 O. Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. V. xv. 220 Well to do = ‘well off, living in easy circumstances’ is often preposed, generally written with hyphens: a well-to-do farmer. 1971 Language 47 276 The former [example] would result if the NSR preceded the postcyclic transformation which preposes away. 1999 M. Stewart Spanish Lang. Today 30 The guide notes the tendency in administrative documents to prepose adjectives more frequently than is habitual in other documentation. ΚΠ 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 27 So that I conclude, and dare..prepose my selfe against any man of contrarie opinion. Derivatives preˈposing n. Grammar the action of placing one word, phrase, etc., in front of another. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [noun] > placing of word before preposition1586 anteposition1728 preposing1967 1967 Language 43 929 We turn to the connection between the preposing of the compared adjective and the inversion of the sentence-final relative clause. 1975 Language 51 815 Passivization..may involve not one but two transformational operations—subject postposing and object preposing. 1988 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 54 426 A third case of special morphology in adjunct preposings is found in Vata. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1492 |
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