appose
See also: apposé
English
Etymology 1
Variant form of oppose.
Verb
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- (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 […].
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:
Etymology 2
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Coined based on Latin appōnō, by analogy with compose, suppose etc.
Verb
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- (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).
- Chapman
- The nymph herself did then appose, / For food and beverage, to him all best meat.
- Chapman
Related terms
Translations
place next to or near to
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French
Pronunciation
Verb
appose
- first-person singular present indicative of apposer
- third-person singular present indicative of apposer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of apposer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of apposer
- second-person singular imperative of apposer
Italian
Verb
appose
- third-person singular past historic of apporre