preposterate

== English == === Verb === preposterate (third-person singular simple present preposterates, present participle preposterating, simple past and past participle preposterated) (obsolete) To reverse or turn upside down. Synonyms: flip over, invert (obsolete) To pervert or disgrace. Synonyms: corrupt, sophisticate, warp; see also Thesaurus:pervert ==== Further reading ==== A Glossary Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, Etc. : which Have Been Thought to Require Illustration in the Works of English Authors, Particularly Shakespeare and His Contemporaries · Volume 2, J.R. Smith, 1876 === References === John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “preposterate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.