appose meaning (obsolete): definition, etymology and quotations

appose

verb

/əˈpəʊz/

Etymology Variant form of oppose.

Obsolete To interrogate; to question.

I shal assaye hir my-self · and sothelich appose / What man of þis worlde · þat hire were leueste.c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “[Passus III]”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...] (Cr, B-text), London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, →OCLC:
Then gan Authority her to appose / With peremptorie powre […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

verb

Etymology Coined based on Latin appōnō, by analogy with compose, suppose etc.

To place next or to or near to; to juxtapose.

To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).

The nymph herself did then appose, / For food and beverage, to him all best meat.1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC: