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单词 postposit
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postpositv.

Brit. /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈpɒzɪt/, U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈpɑzət/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: post- prefix, posit v.
Etymology: < post- prefix + posit v., originally after classical Latin postposit- , past participial stem of postpōnere postpone v. Compare earlier postpone v., postpose v., and also postposited adj.
transitive. To place after; to cause to follow; to treat as less important. In later use also: (Grammar) = postpose v. 2.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [verb (transitive)] > place after in order of estimation or importance
postponea1522
postpose1598
subordinate1620
posthabit1646
postposit1661
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 390 Often in our Love to her, our Love to God is swallowed and post-posited.
1908 S. M. Jackson et al. New Schaff-Herzog Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 362 As if election could be postposited in the ordo decretorum to the decree of the fall.
1926 Language 2 240 I have already pointed out in a preceding article how these suffixes are nothing else than the words ‘I’, ‘thou’, ‘person’, ‘animal’, ‘thing’, postposited after the verb.
1966 Mod. Philol. 63 338/1 Very often when a Russian postposits the personal pronoun the accent of the preceding verb or adjective is lengthened, and a plaintive or apologetic note is introduced to the phrase.
1983 Classical Philol. 78 13 This hypothesis also predicts that nonlexical trochee-shaped words will be constrained if they are syntactically postposited.
1991 German Q. 64 404/2 Much of the ostensible anti-Semitism in Heine research can be decoded..as Verlegenheitskonstruktionen postposited.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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