See also: préposé and prépose

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Borrowed from French préposer; prefix pré- (Latin prae before) with poser. See pose.

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  • IPA(key): /pɹiːˈpəʊz/
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  • Rhymes: -əʊz

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prepose (third-person singular simple present preposes, present participle preposing, simple past and past participle preposed)

  1. (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

  1. third-person singular past historic of preporre

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