infraposition

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English

Etymology

infra- +‎ position

Noun

infraposition (uncountable)

  1. A situation or position beneath.
    • 1915 (published), 1848 (first written), Elisha Kent Kane, Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack
      This floe is now more than two hundred and fifty yards long by four hundred wide; a size too large for infraposition of tables

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for infraposition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)