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English
Adjective
præposterous (comparative more præposterous, superlative most præposterous)
- Archaic spelling of preposterous.
- 1621: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is : With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Historically, Opened and Cut up., page 349 (16th Ed. of the authorized copy of 1651)
- Some, out of præposterous zeal, object many times triviall arguments, and, because of some abuse, will quite take away the good use, as if they should forbid wine, because it makes men drunk ; but, in my judgement, they are too stern : there is a time for all things, a time to mourne, a time to dance (Eccles. 3. 4) ; a time to embrace, a time not to embrace (vers. 5) ; and nothing better than that a man should rejoyce in his own works (vers. 22).