Appose

Variant form of oppose.

Full definition of appose

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
• 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:Then gan Authority her to appose
  With peremptorie powre ….

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

Verb

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).
• ChapmanThe nymph herself did then appose,
  For food and beverage, to him all best meat.

Related terms

• apposite
• apposition
• inapposite