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

A scholar appointed to inspect other scholars; a monitor. Todd.

The office or dignity of a provost; a provostship. Lowth.

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.

To deposit again.

stay; to lay away; to lodge, as for safety or preservation; to place; to store. Others reposit their young in holes. Derham.

The act of repositing; a laying up.

An instrument employed for replacing a displaced organ or part.

A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository. Locke.

an action originating in one's self or in itself. These molecular blocks of salt are self-posited. Tyndall.

The act of disposing or arranging one's self or itself. The self-positing of the molecules. R. Watts.

To set aside; to give up. [Obs.]

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

That which is deposited beneath something else.

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.

Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed. South.