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Definition of Preposes
1. prepose [v] - See also: prepose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preposes
Literary usage of Preposes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law Reports. Privy Council Appeals: Cases Heard and Determined by the by Edmund F. Moore, Herbert Cowell, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1867)
"The liability imposed by the Code is not confined to servants, " Domestiques,"
but extends to preposes, namely, to those who are put forward by the employer ..."
2. Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Judicial Committee and the by Great Britain Privy Council. Judicial Committee (1866)
"The question, therefore, turns upon this point, did the Appellant stand in the
relation of " Commettant" and the Indians " preposes," within the meaning of ..."
3. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1864)
"285) that Luke preposes the preaching in the synagogue at Capernaum to the calling
of Peter, James, and John, for the sake of contrasting his reception at ..."
4. Celebration Legal Essays: To Mark the Twenty-fifth Year of Service of John H by John Henry Wigmore (1919)
"The French terms commettant and preposes, it may be said in passing, are more
correct than the English terms master and servant. The superior is liable for ..."
5. Journals of excursions in the Alps by William Brockedon (1833)
"All admitted the justice of our case; but said, that whatever the consequences
might be to us, or to the preposes, they, the guides, ..."
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