prepose
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- præpose (archaic, rare)
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Borrowed from French préposer; prefix pré- (Latin prae before) with poser. See pose.
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prepose (third-person singular simple present preposes, present participle preposing, simple past and past participle preposed)
- (transitive) To place or set before; to prefix.
- 1648, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge since the Conquest:
- Otherwise I would prepose Millington (first provost afterwards of King's in the reign of King Henry the Sixth) before Wilflete master under King Richard the Third
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prepose
- third-person singular past historic of preporre