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A wrong position.

Erroneous disposal or application. Bp. Hall.

Wrong exposition.

A failure to deposit or throw down.

; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance. The counterpoise of so great an opposition. Shak. Virtue which breaks through all opposition. Milton.

One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.

The depositing of eggs, esp. by insects.

The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after. "The postposition of the nominative case to the verb." Mede.

Of or pertaining to postposition.

s inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger.

A proposition; an exposition; a discourse. [Obs.] He made a long preposition and oration. Fabyan.

Of or pertaining to a preposition; of the nature of a preposition. Early. -- Prep`o*si"tion*al*ly, adv.

That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.

The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering. "Oblations for the altar of proposition." Jer. Taylor.

Pertaining to, or in the nature of, a proposition; considered as a proposition; as, a propositional sense. I. Watts.

The act of recomposing.

The act of repositing; a laying up.

The act of setting aside, or of giving up. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

The act of superposing, or the state of being superposed; as, the superposition of rocks; the superposition of one plane figure on another, in geometry.

ise; opinion or belief without sufficient evidence. This is only an infallibility upon supposition that if a thing be true, it is imposible to be false. Tillotson. He means are in supposition. Shak.