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Definition of Postpositive
1. Adjective. (of a modifier) placed after another word.
Definition of Postpositive
1. a. Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter.
Definition of Postpositive
1. Adjective. (grammar of an adjective or other modifier) Placed after the word modified, either immediately after, as in ''two men abreast'', or as part of a complement, as in ''those two men are bad''. ¹
2. Noun. A postpositive modifier. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Postpositive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Postpositive
Literary usage of Postpositive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and by Charles Augustus Briggs (1920)
"5, 10; it postpositive in iv. 8. In Biblical Aramaic numbers over 10 are always
postpositive : between I and 10 the postpositive order is much more frequent ..."
2. A Series of First Lessons in Greek: Adapted to the 2nd Ed. of Goodwin's by John Williams White (1880)
"... 3 A postpositive conjunction, ie a conjunction which is always pu after one
or more words of the sentence. See also again note 5, Les' son IV. ..."
3. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Revelation of St. John by Robert Henry Charles (1920)
"postpositive in iv. 8. In Biblical Aramaic numbers over ю are always postpositive :
between I and ю the postpositive order is much more frequent than the ..."
4. A Series of First Lessons in Greek: Adapted to the 2nd Ed. of Goodwin's by John Williams White (1880)
"... 3 A postpositive conjunction, ie a conjunction which is always put after one
or more words of the sentence. See also again note 5, Lesson IV. ..."
5. A Latin Grammar by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (1867)
"NAM is always put at the beginning of a sentence; EXIM is always postpositive:
NAMQUE and ETENIM are commonly put in the first place: For what can you do ? ..."
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