APPOSE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Appose

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

verb

Appose v. t.

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."

To place in juxtaposition or proximity.

Appose v. t. To put questions to; to examine; to try. (Obs.) See Pose. "To appose him without any accuser, and that secretly."

See images of 'Appose'

Etymology of 'Appose'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Appose" Quotes from Famous Books

... The father replies to the maiden. He says he is but dust and ashes. He wishes to ask one question,] "Neuer e les let be my onc," Q{uod} I, "my perle a[gh] I appose, I schulde not tempte y wyt so wlonc, To kryste[gh] chambre at art Ichose, 904 I am bot mokke & mul amo{n}g, & {o}u so ryche a reken rose, & byde[gh] here by ys blysful bonc er lyue[gh] lyste may neu{er} lose, ...

— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various

... expenses, and in fallynge to thy worke lustely. Poliphemus. Nay then I were a fole in dede, a penyworth of ease is euer worth a peny, and nowe I haue found so moch pleasure in ease that I can not fall to no labour. Canni. Do you kepe the commaundementes of god? Polip. Nowe ye appose me, kepe the comaundementes quod he, that is a payne in dede. Cannius. Art thou sory for thy synnes and thyne offences, doest thou ernestly repent the for the. Poliphemus. Christ hath payed the raunsome of synne ...

— Two Dyaloges (c. 1549) • Desiderius Erasmus