APPOSED

Verb

apposed

simple past tense and past participle of appose

Anagrams

• pea pods, peapods

Source: Wiktionary


Ap*posed", a.

Definition: Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.

APPOSE

Ap*pose", v. t. Etym: [F. apposer to set to; ad) + poser to put, place. See Pose.]

1. 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. Chapman.

2. To place in juxtaposition or proximity.

Ap*pose", v. t. Etym: [For oppose. See Oppose.]

Definition: To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose. To appose him without any accuser, and that secretly. Tyndale.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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QUANDONG

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