Crossword-Solution: POSTPOSITION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Postposition | n. | The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after. |
| Postposition | n. | A word or particle placed after, or at the end of, another word; -- distinguished from preposition. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with POSTPOSITION (5)
But when he was arrived near the river's side, the borderers which are called Orenoqueponi (poni is a Carib postposition meaning "on") robbed him and his Guianians of all the treasure (the borderers being at that time at wars, which Inga had not conquered) save only of two great bottles of gourds, which were filled with beads of gold curiously wrought, which those Orenoqueponi thought had been no other thing than his drink or meat, or grain for food, with which Martinez had liberty to pass.
When the noun to which they are suffixed has a double form, the postposition is added to the short form.
Declension is replaced by a highly developed postpositional system; first, the definite article itself _a_ (plural _ak_) is a postposition--_zaldi_, "horse," _zaldia_ "the horse," _zaldiak_, "the horses." The declensional suffixes or postpositions, which, just like our prepositions, may be added to one another, are postponed to the article when the noun is definite.
The _li_ which I mentioned before as the sign of the locative, has dwindled down to a mere postposition, and a modern Chinese is no more aware that _li_ meant originally interior, than the Turanian is of the origin of his case-terminations.(308) In the spoken dialects of Chinese, agglutinative forms are of more frequent occurrence.
The usual genitive postposition is _k_, which has become a suffix, and now forms part of the word to which it is attached, a final preceding vowel being frequently shortened.
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Appears in: WSJ.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2007–2008).