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interposition|ˌɪntəpəʊˈzɪʃən|
[a. F. interposition, OF. also -icion (12th c. in Hatz.–Darm.), ad. L. interpositiōn-em, n. of action from interpōnĕre to interpone. Not derivationally related to interpose, but associated with it in OF. by contact of form, and adoption of -poser as virtual representative of L. -pōnĕre; cf. composition, disposition, etc.]
The action of the vb. interpose.
1. The action of placing something or oneself between; the fact of being placed or situated between; intervention.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. v. (MS. Digby 230) lf. 38 b/1 So þe mone haþ made diuisioun By here sodein interposicioun. 1527R. Thorne in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 252 If..the sea did extend, without interposition of land. 1586W. Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 56 One verse either immediatly, or by mutuall interposition, may be aunswerable to an other. 1741T. Robinson Gavelkind ii. 11 Without the Interposition of a Female Parent. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge lviii, He made the cell..black by the interposition of his body. 1864Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. ii. (1875) 8 The sovereign's person..was removed further from the subject by the interposition of a host of officials.
b. An instance of this; sometimes quasi-concr., that which is interposed.
1650Cromwell Lett. 4 Sept. in Carlyle, The enemy..gathered towards the Hills; labouring to make a perfect interposition between us and Berwick. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 58 A Narrative..which though it may appear too great an interposition to our travel, will..I hope find acceptance. 1671Milton P.R. iii. 222 A shelter and a kind of shading cool Interposition, as a summer's cloud. 1696Whiston The. Earth iv. (1722) 353 The Seasons were..without any quick Interpositions of Day and Night to disturb them. 1834[see interlocation].
2. The action of interfering or intervening in a matter; intervention between persons or in a person's behalf; interference, mediation. With an and pl., an instance of this.
1461Paston Lett. No. 415 II. 50 Lete sum interposicion go a twix you and my mastres your moder. 1603Florio Montaigne ii. xii. (1632) 248 Nature in generall disavoweth her [Reason's] jurisdiction and interposition. 1670in Somers Tracts I. 8 The Pacification was effected wholly by Interposition of the English Commissioners. 1696Whiston The. Earth iv. (1722) 303, I take [it] to be a Miraculous Interposition very worthy of God. 1769Junius Lett. i. 10 By the immediate interposition of Providence. 1769Robertson Hist. Chas. V (1796) III. xii. 401 His interpositions in her favour became more cold. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. ix. 255 The interposition of the Praetor and the acceptance of his mediation expanded into the Administration of Justice in the Roman State. 1877Sparrow Serm. xxii. 298 In the matter of religion, man needs the direct interposition of divine authority.
†3. A parenthesis; a digression. Obs.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 171 Some use so many interpositions, bothe in their talke and in their writyng, that thei make their saiynges as darke as helle. |