different between apposer vs appose

English

Etymology

appose +? -er

Noun

apposer (plural apposers)

1. An examiner; one whose business is to put questions.
2. (historical) In the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.

Anagrams

• poperas

French

Etymology

From a- +? poser, with senses based on Latin app?n?, app?nere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.po.ze/

Verb

apposer

1. (transitive) to put up, stick up, attach
2. (law) to stamp, sign

Conjugation

Related terms

• apposition

Further reading

• “apposer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p??z/
• Homophone: oppose

Etymology 1

Variant form of oppose.

Verb

appose (third-person singular simple present apposes, present participle apposing, simple past and past participle apposed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:

     I shal assaye hir my-self · and sothelich appose / What man of þis worlde · þat hire were leueste.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:

     Then gan Authority her to appose / With peremptorie powre […].

Etymology 2

Coined based on Latin app?n?, by analogy with compose, suppose etc.

Verb

appose (third-person singular simple present apposes, present participle apposing, simple past and past participle apposed)

1. (transitive) To place next or to or near to; to juxtapose.
2. (transitive) To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).

Related terms

• apposite
• apposition
• inapposite

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: apposent, apposes

Verb

appose

1. first-person singular present indicative of apposer
2. third-person singular present indicative of apposer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of apposer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of apposer
5. second-person singular imperative of apposer

Italian

Verb

appose

1. third-person singular past historic of apporre

Anagrams

• appeso