Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AN-TE-PO-SI'TION
ANT-EP-I-LEP'TICAN-TE-PRE-DIC'A-MENT
AN-TE-PO-SI'TION, n. [s as z. L. ante, before, and position, from pono, to place.]
In grammar, the placing of a word before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.
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