| Pronunciation: | | u'powz
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| Matching Terms: | | apposable, apposed, apposer, apposite, appositeness, apposition, appositional, appositive, appositively
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| | Definition: | | [v] place side by side or in close proximity |
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| | See Also: | | lay, place, pose, position, put, set |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Ap*pose"\, v. t. [F. apposer to set to; ? (L. ad) +
poser to put, place. See {Pose}.]
1. To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to
another).
The nymph herself did then appose, For food and
beverage, to him all best meat. --Chapman.
2. To place in juxtaposition or proximity.
\Ap*pose"\, v. t. [For oppose. See {Oppose}.]
To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See {Pose}.
To appose him without any accuser, and that secretly.
--Tyndale.
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