appose

See also: apposé

English

Etymology 1

Variant form of oppose.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:

     I shal assaye hir my-self · and sothelich appose / What man of þis worlde · þat hire were leueste.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:

     Then gan Authority her to appose / With peremptorie powre […].

Etymology 2

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Coined based on Latin appōnō, by analogy with compose, suppose etc.

Verb

1. (transitive) To place next or to or near to; to juxtapose.
2. (transitive) To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).
   • Chapman

     The nymph herself did then appose, / For food and beverage, to him all best meat.

Related terms

• apposite
• apposition
• inapposite

Translations

place next to or near to

• Bulgarian: съпоставям (bg) (sǎpostavjam)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: apor (pt)

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: apposent, apposes

Verb

appose

1. first-person singular present indicative of apposer
2. third-person singular present indicative of apposer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of apposer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of apposer
5. second-person singular imperative of apposer

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Italian

Verb

appose

1. third-person singular past historic of apporre

Anagrams

• appeso