Appose vs Contradict - What's the difference?
appose | contradict |
(obsolete) To interrogate; to question.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:
To place next or to or near to; to juxtapose.
To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).
* Chapman
(obsolete) To speak against; to forbid.
*, New York 2001, p. 203:
To deny the truth of (a statement or statements).
To make a statement denying the truth of the statement(s) made by (a person).
* Shakespeare
* Wordsworth
To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.
* Hooker
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between appose and contradict
is that appose is to interrogate; to question while contradict is to speak against; to forbid.appose
English
Etymology 1
Variant form of oppose.Verb
(appos)- Then gan Authority her to appose / With peremptorie powre […].
Etymology 2
Coined based on (etyl) , by analogy with compose, suppose etc.Verb
(appos)- The nymph herself did then appose , / For food and beverage, to him all best meat.
contradict
English
Verb
(en verb)- magic hath been publically professed in former times, in Salamanca, Cracovia, and other places, though after censured by several universities, and now generally contradicted , though practised by some still […].
- His testimony contradicts hers.
- Everything he says contradicts me.
- Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself, / And say it is not so.
- The future cannot contradict the past.
- No truth can contradict another truth.
- A greater power than we can contradict / Hath thwarted our intents.