Wordnet 3.0
VERB (1)
1.
place before another constituent in the sentence;
- Example: "English preposes the adpositions Japanese postposes them";
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Prepose \Pre*pose"\, v. t. [F. pr['e]poser; pref. pr['e]- (L.
prae before) + poser. See Pose.]
To place or set before; to prefix. [Obs.] --Fuller.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
prepose
v 1: place before another constituent in the sentence; "English
preposes the adpositions; Japanese postposes them"