Appose
Origin 1
Variant form of oppose.
Full definition of appose
Verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:Then gan Authority her to appose
With peremptorie powre ….
Origin 2
Coined based on Latin appÅnÅ, by analogy with compose, suppose etc.
Verb
- (transitive) To place next or to or near to; to juxtapose.
- (transitive) To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).
- ChapmanThe nymph herself did then appose,
For food and beverage, to him all best meat.