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ap⋅pose

  [uh-pohz]
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–verb (used with object), -posed, -pos⋅ing.
1. to place side by side, as two things; place next to; juxtapose.
2. to put or apply (one thing) to or near to another.
Origin:
1585–95; by analogy with compose, propose, etc. < L appōnere to place near, set alongside, equiv. to ap- ap- 1 + pōnere to place

Related forms:
ap⋅pos⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
ap⋅pos⋅a⋅ble, adjective
ap⋅pos⋅er, noun
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ap·pose   (ā-pōz')   
tr.v.   ap·posed, ap·pos·ing, ap·pos·es
To place in proximity; juxtapose.

[Probably ad- + -pose (as in compose).]
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Appose

Ap*pose"\, v. t. [F. apposer to set to; ? (L. 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.

Appose

Ap*pose"\, v. t. [For oppose. See Oppose.] To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose.

To appose him without any accuser, and that secretly. --Tyndale.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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