oppone
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From Latin opponere. See opponent.
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oppone (third-person singular simple present oppones, present participle opponing, simple past and past participle opponed)
- (obsolete) To oppose.
- 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, (please specify the GB page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Out of his Indies: what can you not do,
Against lords spiritual, or temporal,
That shall oppone you?
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- “oppone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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oppōne