Word Meanings - POSTPOSITIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to postposition.

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• POSTPOSITION
  1. The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after. "The postposition of the nominative case to the verb." Mede. 2. A word or particle placed after, or at the end of, another word; - - distinguished from preposition.
• POSTPOSITIONAL
  Of or pertaining to postposition.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach