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・ prepollent
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・ preponderance
・ preponderancy
・ preponderant
・ preponderate
・ preponderatingly
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preposition
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・ prepositive
・ prepositor
・ prepositure
・ prepossess
・ prepossessing
・ prepossession
・ prepossessor
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preposition : 英英辞書
Prep°osi"tion
(), n.[L. praepositio, fr. praeponere to place before; prae before + ponere to put, place: cf. F. prposition. See Position, and cf. Provost.]
1. (Gram.) A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.
2. A proposition; an exposition; a discourse. [Obs.]
He made a long preposition and oration.
Fabyan.



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