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Definition of Appose
1. Verb. Place side by side or in close proximity.
Derivative terms: Apposable, Apposition, Appositive
Definition of Appose
1. v. t. To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).
2. v. t. To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose.
Definition of Appose
1. Verb. (transitive) To place next or to or near to; to juxtapose. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Appose
1. to place side by side [v -POSED, -POSING, -POSES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appose
Literary usage of Appose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"From appose, v. appose, to ' pose ', to ask a difficult question. ... 1. 14;
Short Catechism, Edw. VI, 495 (NED.). ME. appose ..."
2. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1905)
"No!) " ' He turned sud- i<tl* ^toa go, perhaps. if- . -•£•'• appose you were
1 -^rf ^ one come, and —e pleased with him ado? ..."
3. The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, and Constant Martyr of by Hugh Latimer, John Watkins (1824)
"And often coming from school, when I met her, she would appose me touching my
learning and lesson, and falling from grammar to logick, wherein she had some ..."
4. Introductory Modern Geometry of Point, Ray, and Circle by William Benjamin Smith (1892)
"... is called the sum of the two areas thus apposed ; eg we may appose two equal
semicircles and get a circle as the sum ; or two congruent A and FIG. ..."
5. The Clinical Journal (1906)
"of the area deprived of mucous membrane, and uncovered by the flaps, which have
been brought inwards so as to appose their inner margins. ..."
6. A Student's Pastime: Being a Select Series of Articles Reprinted from "Notes by Walter William Skeat (1896)
"This is usually regarded as an abbreviation of appose, and this is true; but we
must also go back a step further, and acknowledge appose to be an adaptation ..."
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