rare. [n. of action f. L. antepōn-ĕre; cf. position.] The placing of anything in front: esp. a. of a word that in ordinary construction follows; b. in Bot. (see quot.).
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Anteposition.… As when in Latin the adjective is put before the substantive, the verb before the nominative case, &c.
1775. Ash, Anteposition, a position of words contrary to their proper and natural order.
1880. Gray, Bot. Text-Bk., 396. Anteposition, the opposition of successive (or apparently successive) whorls which normally alternate.
