Word Meanings - PREPOSITIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle. -- n.

PREFIX
prae before + figere to fix: cf. F. préfix fixed beforehand, 1. To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement. 2. To set or appoint beforehand; to settle
BEFORETIME
Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
BEFOREHAND
1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
PREPOSITIVE
Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle. -- n.
PARTICLE
A subordinate word that is never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely. (more info) 1. A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little
BEFORE
1. In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton. 2. Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when;
PREFIXION
The act of prefixing. Bailey.
THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
HEREINBEFORE
In the preceding part of this .