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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. LL.

antepositio

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(Gram.)

The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.

Noun.

s as z. [L. ante, before, and position, from pono, to place.]

In grammar, the placing of a word before another which by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.

anteposition ‎(plural antepositions)

(rare) The placing of something in front of something else, especially of words in a sentence.

the placing of something in front of something else