prepose

• præpose (archaic, rare)

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

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

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

• postpose

• preposition

prepose

1. third-person singular past historic of preporre

• propese, seppero