prepone

Definitions

1. To reschedule to a time earlier than the current scheduled time.
   India, transitive
2. To place or set (something) before.
   obsolete, rare, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“I do pꝛepone and ſet the Loꝛd alwaye befoꝛe myne eyes: He is ſtyll at my right hande, leaſte I fall⟳ in anye wyſe.”

“When theſe Characters curt, and ſhort Essayes, / Right Worſhipfull, vnworthie of Your view⟳, / At ſome ſucceſſiue Hours, on ydle dayes, / My Pen, for Pinſell; Coale, for Colours, drew, / I ſtood, and ſtudi’d, whoſe præponed Name⟳ / Should dye in Graine, and Luſter lend⟳ to Them.”

“If then by this inviolable tie we are one, your endowments entitle me joinct owner; a riches, I prepone to Monarchies.”

“Words and Sentences of Indentures, Acts of Parliament, and other Specialties and Writings ought to be rendred out of Engliſh into Latin, in the same Order⟳ as they are expreſs’d in the ſame, not preponing or poſtponing any of them with Intent to make⟳ the Latin more elegant; for tho’ ſuch diſplacing of words, not altering the Senſe, vitiates not the Pleadings, yet it hinders the ready Examination of the Latin with the Engliſh, and obſcures the true knowledge of the Deeds.”

“Firſt, Find⟳ what Decimal of a Pound .625 will Repreſent, which is eaſily done if you prepone a Cypher [i.e., zero], and half the Number⟳ is the Decimal of a Pound. The Number⟳ with a Cypher preponed is .0625, ½ is .03125.”

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