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appose en · VERB · etymology 1

Variant form of oppose.

(obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
- Then gan Authority her to appose / With peremptorie powre […]. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- I shal assaye hir my-self · and sothelich appose / What man of þis worlde · þat hire were leueste. c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “[Passus III]”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...] (Cr, B-text), London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, →OCLC:

Spelling	Features	Source
apposed	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
apposed	Tense=Past	lexicographic
apposing	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
apposes	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic

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

(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).
- The nymph herself did then appose, / For food and beverage, to him all best meat. 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

Spelling	Features	Source
apposing	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
apposes	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
apposed	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
apposed	Tense=Past	lexicographic

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