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Definition of Apposing
1. appose [v] - See also: appose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apposing
Literary usage of Apposing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets: Never Before in Any Language Truly by Homer, George Chapman, William Cooke Taylor (1843)
"She led her in, and in a chair of silver (being the fruit Of Vulcan's hand) she
made her sit: a footstool, of a suit, apposing" to her crystal feet, ..."
2. Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Alfred William Pollard (1903)
"And other brethren have sent to me, and required me, on GOD's behalf! that I
should write out and make known both mine apposing and mine Answering " for the ..."
3. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin by John Vietch Shoemaker (1909)
"... and hot, or covered with abundant secretion, the apposing surfaces glued
together, the discomfort from the itching and pain being at times unendurable. ..."
4. A Text-book on the practice of gynecology by William Easterly Ashton (1916)
"If the patient is around attending to her usual duties, the apposing surfaces
should be separated by a piece of absorbent lint and a compress applied which ..."
5. Manual of Bacteriology and Pathology for Nurses by Jay Gilbert Roberts (1920)
"When the lips of a clean aseptic wound are brought in apposition, proliferative
connective-tissue cells join the apposing walls, proliferative epithelial ..."
6. Introductory Modern Geometry of Point, Ray, and Circle by William Benjamin Smith (1892)
"Thus by apposing the bases b and b* of two (Fig. 119) A agreeing in altitude a,
... By apposing two A along the common base b we get half of the rectangle ..."
7. The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science: Consisting of Original (1867)
"The stump of the forefinger was quite healed, but there was little power of
apposing the thumb to it. The ball of the thumb was atrophied and the joints of ..."
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