Apposes vs Apposer - What's the difference?
apposes | apposer |
(appose)
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(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
An examiner; one whose business is to put questions.
(historical) In the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.
(Webster 1913)
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As a verb apposes
is .As a noun apposer is
an examiner; one whose business is to put questions.apposes
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Verb
(head)appose
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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.