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Apposed vs Opposed - What's the difference?

apposed | opposed |

As verbs the difference between opposed and apposed

is that opposed is past tense of oppose while apposed is past tense of appose.

As an adjective opposed

is acting in opposition; opposing.

apposed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (appose)

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    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 ----

    opposed

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Acting in opposition; opposing.
  • Being, of having an opponent; not unopposed.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (oppose)