Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to prepone
Participle: preponed
Gerund: preponing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | prepone |
| you | prepone |
| he;she;it | prepones |
| we | prepone |
| you | prepone |
| they | prepone |
Perfect
| I | have preponed |
| you | have preponed |
| he;she;it | has preponed |
| we | have preponed |
| you | have preponed |
| they | have preponed |
Past
| I | preponed |
| you | preponed |
| he;she;it | preponed |
| we | preponed |
| you | preponed |
| they | preponed |
Pluperfect
| I | had preponed |
| you | had preponed |
| he;she;it | had preponed |
| we | had preponed |
| you | had preponed |
| they | had preponed |
Future
| I | will prepone |
| you | will prepone |
| he;she;it | will prepone |
| we | will prepone |
| you | will prepone |
| they | will prepone |
Future Perfect
| I | will have preponed |
| you | will have preponed |
| he;she;it | will have preponed |
| we | will have preponed |
| you | will have preponed |
| they | will have preponed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | prepone |
| you | prepone |
| he;she;it | prepone |
| we | prepone |
| you | prepone |
| they | prepone |
Perfect
| I | have preponed |
| you | have preponed |
| he;she;it | have preponed |
| we | have preponed |
| you | have preponed |
| they | have preponed |
Imperfect
| I | preponed |
| you | preponed |
| he;she;it | preponed |
| we | preponed |
| you | preponed |
| they | preponed |
Pluperfect
| I | had preponed |
| you | had preponed |
| he;she;it | had preponed |
| we | had preponed |
| you | had preponed |
| they | had preponed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would prepone |
| you | would prepone |
| he;she;it | would prepone |
| we | would prepone |
| you | would prepone |
| they | would prepone |
Perfect
| I | would have preponed |
| you | would have preponed |
| he;she;it | would have preponed |
| we | would have preponed |
| you | would have preponed |
| they | would have preponed |
Imperative
| you | prepone |
| we | Let's prepone |
| you | prepone |
Verbs conjugated like 'prepone'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'prepone'
pre-pone,
prepose,
prezone,
propone,
repone,
depone,
præpose,
precode,
predose,
prefine,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Blend of pre- + postpone, 1913.
Sample Sentences
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I do pꝛepone and ſet the Loꝛd alwaye befoꝛe myne eyes: He is ſtyll at my right hande, leaſte I fall in anye wyſe. [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:]
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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. [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:]
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If then by this inviolable tie we are one, your endowments entitle me joinct owner; a riches, I prepone to Monarchies. [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:]
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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. [1701, Will[iam] Brown, Tutor Clericalis Instructus: or, The Clerk’s Tutor Improv’d. […], London: […] R. Basset […], page 25:]
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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. [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:]