Opposes vs Apposes - What's the difference?
opposes | apposes |
(oppose)
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To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against; to confront; to resist; to withstand.
To object to.
To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
* John Locke
* 1839 , Philip Meadows Taylor, Confessions of a Thug
To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
* Shakespeare
To compete with; to strive against.
* Shakespeare
(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
As verbs the difference between opposes and apposes
is that opposes is while apposes is .opposes
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(head)oppose
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Verb
(oppos)- to oppose''' the king in battle; to '''oppose a bill in Congress
- There is still time to oppose this plan.
- Many religious leaders oppose cloning humans.
- They are opposed to any form of hierarchy.
- I may oppose my single opinion to his.
- [T]hree walls had been left standing, with large intervals between each; and they would certainly oppose a most formidable interruption to an invader.
- Her grace sat down / In a rich chair of state; opposing freely / The beauty of her person to the people.
- to oppose a rival for a prize
- I am too weak / To oppose your cunning.
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(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.