Note 217 — IV
Reading edition
[e. g. “One said thus preposterously: ‘when we had climbed the clifs and were a shore’” (Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, 1589, p. 181, ed. Arber). “It is a preposterous order to teach first and to learn after” (Preface to Bible, 1611). “Place not the coming of the wise men, preposterously, before the appearance of the star” (Abp. Secker, Sermons, iii, 85, ed. 1825).]