appose
See also: apposé
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Etymology 1 edit
Variant form of oppose.
Verb edit
appose (third-person singular simple present apposes, present participle apposing, simple past and past participle apposed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
- c. 1370–1390, [William Langland], “[Passus III]”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...], London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, →OCLC:
- I shal assaye hir my-self · and sothelich appose / What man of þis worlde · þat hire were leueste.
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- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Then gan Authority her to appose / With peremptorie powre […].
Etymology 2 edit
Coined based on Latin appōnō, by analogy with compose, suppose etc.
Verb edit
appose (third-person singular simple present apposes, present participle apposing, simple past and past participle apposed)
- (transitive) To place next or to or near to; to juxtapose.
- (transitive) To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).
- 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC:
- The nymph herself did then appose, / For food and beverage, to him all best meat.
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place next to or near to
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appose
- inflection of apposer:
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appose
- third-person singular past historic of apporre