the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [adverb] > on or in contact with a surface or position (7)
Of position: On this place, etc.
= whereupon, adv. 2 3b Obsolete.
Into or to a position on a surface or object; so as to be put or placed on the thing in question.
Of local position (on, prep. 2a 6).