Vocabulary : Appose to Appraise
Appose : To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another). ;; To place in juxtaposition or proximity. ;; To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose.Apposed : Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.
Apposer : An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.
Apposite : Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case.
Apposition : The act of adding; application; accretion. ;; The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed. ;; The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.
