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Meaning of APPOSE

Pronunciation:  u'powz

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [v]  place side by side or in close proximity
 
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 See Also: lay, place, pose, position, put, set

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Ap*pose"\, v. t. [F. apposer to set to; ? (L. ad) +
    poser to put, place. See {Pose}.]
    1. To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to
       another).
             The nymph herself did then appose, For food and
             beverage, to him all best meat.       --Chapman.
    2. To place in juxtaposition or proximity.
    
  2. \Ap*pose"\, v. t. [For oppose. See {Oppose}.]
    To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See {Pose}.
          To appose him without any accuser, and that secretly.
                                                   --Tyndale.
    
 

 

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