appose

Variant form of oppose.

appose (third-person singular simple present apposes, present participle apposing, simple past and past participle apposed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:

     I shal assaye hir my-self · and sothelich appose / What man of þis worlde · þat hire were leueste.

   • 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.

appose (third-person singular simple present apposes, present participle apposing, simple past and past participle apposed)

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).
   • Chapman

     The nymph herself did then appose, / For food and beverage, to him all best meat.

• apposite
• apposition
• inapposite

• Homophones: apposent, apposes

appose

1. first-person singular present indicative of apposer
2. third-person singular present indicative of apposer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of apposer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of apposer
5. second-person singular imperative of apposer

appose

1. third-person singular past historic of apporre

• appeso