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1. after-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Combinations in which after- is adjectival or adverbial, and indicates that the second element refers to something that comes behind or afterwards, or an action that is performed later....
2. alder-, prefix View full entry ?a1160
...Prefixed to superlative adverbs with the sense ‘of all’, as alder-best, alder-first, alder-last, alder-most, etc. Usu. in cases where modern English uses an adverbial...
3. arch-, prefix View full entry 1541
...In titles of office, rank, or dignity: meaning, ‘Chief, principal, -in-chief; superior, master-; one who occupies a position or rank above those who bear the simple title’; as archbishop, ...
4. fore-, prefix View full entry c1000
...In verbs, ppl. adjs., agent-nouns and nouns of action. (Stress on the verb.)...
5. mis-, prefix1 View full entry a1450
...Prefixed to verbs, with sense ‘badly’, ‘wrongly’, ‘perversely’, ‘mistakenly’, ‘amiss’....
6. over-, prefix View full entry eOE
...In spatial and temporal senses, and in uses directly related to these....
7. super-, prefix View full entry c1429
...Forming adjectives and nouns denoting a thing which is situated over, above, higher than, or (less commonly) upon another, and verbs expressing this relation....
8. to-, prefix2 View full entry c1000
...With separative force: Asunder, apart, to or in pieces; also, away, about, abroad, here and there. Combined with verbs and derived adjs. and ns. The more important of these appear in their...
