preponeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Blend of pre- +‎ postpone, 1913.

別の表記

• pre-pone

動詞

prepone (third-person singular simple present prepones, present participle preponing, simple past and past participle preponed)

1. (chiefly India, transitive) To reschedule to a time earlier than the current scheduled time.

   Synonyms: advance, bring forward, hasten, antedate, expedite, move up

   Antonym: postpone

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:prepone.

派生語

参照

• “prepone”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
• “prepone”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “prepone”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “prepone” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.

語源 2

From Latin praepōnō.

動詞

prepone (third-person singular simple present prepones, present participle preponing, simple past and past participle preponed)

1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To place or set (something) before.

   Synonyms: prefix, prepose

   • 1549 September 30 (Gregorian calendar), Robert Crowley, transl., “The .xvi. Psalme”, in The Psalter of Dauid Newely Translated into Englysh Metre in Such Sort that It Maye the More Decently, and wyth More Delyte of the Mynde, Be Reade and Songe of Al Men. […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton and Stephen Mierdman for] Robert Crowley […], signature [C.iv.], verso:

     I do pꝛepone and ſet the Loꝛd alwaye befoꝛe myne eyes: He is ſtyll at my right hande, leaſte I fall in anye wyſe.

   • 1625, Alexander Garden, “To the Truely Honored, and Worthily Worshipfull, Sir Alexander Gordon, Knight-Baronet of Clunie, &c.”, in Characters and Essayes, Aberdeen: […] Edward Raban, […], page 5:

     When theſe Characters curt, and ſhort Essayes, / Right Worſhipfull, vnworthie of Your view, / At ſome ſucceſſiue Hours, on ydle dayes, / My Pen, for Pinſell; Coale, for Colours, drew, / I ſtood, and ſtudi’d, whoſe præponed Name / Should dye in Graine, and Luſter lend to Them.

   • 1653 October 9 (Gregorian calendar), D. W., “XLIX. A further reply.”, in Thomas Blount, The Academie of Eloquence. Containing a Compleat English Rhetorique, Exemplified, with Common-Places, and Formes, Digested into an Easie and Methodical Way to Speak and Write Fluently, According to the Mode of the Present Times, Together with Letters Both Amorous and Moral, upon Emergent Occasions., London: […] T. N. for Humphrey Moseley, […], published 1654, page 197:

     If then by this inviolable tie we are one, your endowments entitle me joinct owner; a riches, I prepone to Monarchies.

   • 1701, Will[iam] Brown, Tutor Clericalis Instructus: or, The Clerk’s Tutor Improv’d. […], London: […] R. Basset […], page 25:

     Words and Sentences of Indentures, Acts of Parliament, and other Specialties and Writings ought to be rendred out of Engliſh into Latin, in the same Order as they are expreſs’d in the ſame, not preponing or poſtponing any of them with Intent to make the Latin more elegant; for tho’ ſuch diſplacing of words, not altering the Senſe, vitiates not the Pleadings, yet it hinders the ready Examination of the Latin with the Engliſh, and obſcures the true knowledge of the Deeds.

   • 1716, John Hill, Arithmetick Both in the Theory and Practice, Made Plain and Easie, in All the Common and Useful Rules, Both in Whole Numbers, and Fractions, Vulgar and Decimal. […], 2nd edition, London: […] D. Midwinter, […], page 185:

     Firſt, Find what Decimal of a Pound .625 will Repreſent, which is eaſily done if you prepone a Cypher [i.e., zero], and half the Number is the Decimal of a Pound. The Number with a Cypher preponed is .0625, ½ is .03125.

     The 1st edition (1713) uses postpone.

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