appose

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpəʊz/
• Rhymes: -əʊz
• Homophone: oppose

Etymology 1

Variant form of oppose.

Verb

appose (third-person singular simple present apposes, present participle apposing, simple past and past participle apposed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
   • c. 1370–1390, [William Langland], “”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...], London: Roberte Crowley, , published 1550, →OCLC:

     I shal assaye hir my-self · and sothelich appose / What man of þis worlde · þat hire were leueste.

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   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Then gan Authority her to appose / With peremptorie powre […].

Etymology 2

Coined based on Latin appōnō, by analogy with compose, suppose etc.

Verb

appose (third-person singular simple present apposes, present participle apposing, simple past and past participle apposed)

1. (transitive) To place next or to or near to; to juxtapose.
2. (transitive) To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).
   • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. , London: Rich Field , for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC:

     The nymph herself did then appose, / For food and beverage, to him all best meat.

Derived terms

Related terms

• apposite
• apposition
• inapposite

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: apposent, apposes

Verb

appose

1. inflection of apposer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Verb

appose

1. third-person singular past historic of apporre

Anagrams

• appeso