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Prepositive   Listen
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Prepositive  adj.  (Gram.) Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle.






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"Prepositive" Quotes from Famous Books



... interpetatur," says the chronicler, "non [ille] per Deum." The king and his peers, deriding him, called him afterwards Bigoth, or Bigot, instead of Rollo. "Unde Normanni," adds the writer, who brings his history down to the year 1137, "adhuc Bigothi dicuntur." This will account for the prepositive article "Le" prefixed to the Norman Bigods, the descendants of those who followed William the Conqueror into England, such as Hugh Le Bigod, &c. Among other innovations in France, the word Bigotisme has ...
— Notes & Queries 1850.01.26 • Various



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