postpose
See also: postposé
English
editEtymology
editFrom French postposer. See post- and pose.
Verb
editpostpose (third-person singular simple present postposes, present participle postposing, simple past and past participle postposed)
- (grammar, transitive) To place (a word or phrase) after another in a sentence, especially in order to modify it
- (obsolete, transitive) To postpone.
- a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
- kings are postposed to bishops
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editVerb
editpostpose
- inflection of postposer: