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Apposes vs Apposers - What's the difference?

apposes | apposers |

As a verb apposes

is .

As a noun apposers is

.

apposes

English

Verb

(head)
  • (appose)
  • ----

    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.

    apposers

    English

    Noun

    (head)