Interposed vs Disposed - What's the difference?
interposed | disposed |
(interpose)
To insert something (or oneself) between other things.
* Cowper
* Shakespeare
To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.
To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.
* Cowper
To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.
(dispose)
Inclined; minded.
*(Bible), (w) xviii.27:
*:when he was disposed to pass into Achaia
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
(lb) Inclined to mirth; jolly.
:(Beaumont and Fletcher)
As verbs the difference between interposed and disposed
is that interposed is past tense of interpose while disposed is past tense of dispose.As an adjective disposed is
inclined; minded.interposed
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(head)Anagrams
*interpose
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(en-verb)- to interpose a screen between the eye and the light
- Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations.
- What watchful cares do interpose themselves / Betwixt your eyes and night?
- (Milton)
- long hid by interposing hill or wood.