subterposed

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subterposed (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Placed underneath.
    • 1878, The Quarterly Review, volume 145, page 68:
      When the bodies had been placed on the pyres, these were set on fire, so that the clothes and the flesh were burned with the subterposed wood.