"præposterous" meaning in All languages combined

See præposterous on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more præposterous [comparative], most præposterous [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} præposterous (comparative more præposterous, superlative most præposterous)
  1. Archaic spelling of preposterous. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: preposterous
    Sense id: en-præposterous-en-adj-3gvbJrPP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry
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          "ref": "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)",
          "text": "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)."
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