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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

postpose en · VERB

Etymology

From French postposer. See post- and pose.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To place (a word or phrase) after another in a sentence, especially in order to modify it
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To postpone.
    • kings are postposed to bishops 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
postposing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
postposed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
postposed Tense=Past lexicographic
postposes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Coordinates

prepose

Relateds

postposition

Translations (3)

pl używać w postpozycji (Translations) · es postposar (Translations) · pl użyć w postpozycji (Translations)