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appose | pappose |

As a verb appose

is .

As an adjective pappose is

(botany) furnished with a pappus; downy.

appose

English

Etymology 1

Variant form of oppose.

Verb

(appos)
  • (obsolete) To interrogate; to question.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:
    • Then gan Authority her to appose / With peremptorie powre […].

    Etymology 2

    Coined based on (etyl) , by analogy with compose, suppose etc.

    Verb

    (appos)
  • To place next or to or near to; to juxtapose.
  • 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.
    Related terms
    * apposite * apposition * inapposite ----

    pappose

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (botany) Furnished with a pappus; downy.
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