interposev.

/ɪntəˈpəʊz/

Forms: Also 1600s enter-.

Etymology: < French interposer (14th cent. in Godefroy), < Latin inter between + French poser to place (see pose n.¹); substituted for Latin interpōnĕre (see interpone v.) by form-association with inflections and derivatives of the latter, as interposition, etc.; compare compose, depose, dispose. Compare also French entreposer (12–13th cent. in Hatzfeld and Darmesteter), in Old French to place alternately or intermixedly.

I. To place between.

a. transitive. To place between (in space or time); to put or set between or in an intermediate position; to cause to intervene. Often with implication of obstruction or delay; cf. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > [verb (transitive)] > intervene between

interpose1599

intercede1614

interspace1861

the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be or make interjacent [verb (transitive)] > place (a thing) between

interlace1532

interlard1545

interplace1548

object1548

intersert1582

lace1595

interpose1599

interblend1605

interlay1609

enlard1621

interpone1678

intercalate1824

interpolate1827

interlocate1851

interleave1856

sandwich1861

1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. at Interpuesto Interposed, put betwixt.

1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. 25 He is not bound to doe any seruice either in his owne person, or by any other person interposed during his minority.

1647 T. May Hist. Parl. i. viii. 89 Much time was interposed betweene the severall proceedings against this Earle of Strafferd.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 75 Darkning..a colour, is onely interposing a multitude of dark or black spots among the same ting'd parts.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 37 Only a small part of the convexity of the globe is interposed between us and the sun.

1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 129 The portions of the pseud-haemal system which were interposed between the digestive tract and the dorsal surface.

†b. To place (things) with intervals, or in alternation, to cause to alternate. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > alternation > alternate [verb (transitive)]

altern1447

entermetea1500

interchange1561

interpose1602

alternate1605

interplace1650

interleave1802

interleaf1900

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > among other things

interpose1602

intersow1614

intersperse1647

chequer1677

commix1847

intersprinkle1848

thread1884

1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 356 The other [wall] of Pyles and Tymber strongly and artificially interposed.

1691 R. Baxter Of National Churches xv. 72 God can..interpose days with nights, and Summers with Winters.

c. Chess. To move (a man) so as to obstruct the line of action of an opposing piece, esp. when the latter is giving check. Also absol., or with the interposed man as subject.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [verb (transitive)] > tactics

to shut up1474

to take upc1475

neck1597

catch1674

to discover check1688

attack1735

retreat1744

fork1745

pin1745

retake1750

guard1761

interpose1761

castle1764

retract1777

to take (a pawn) en passant1818

capture1820

decline1847

cook1851

undouble1868

unpin1878

counter1890

fidate1910

sacrifice1915

fianchetto1927

1761 E. Hoyle Ess. Game of Chess 2, 6 B. The Queen gives Check. W. The Bishop interposes.

1765 R. Lambe Hist. Chess 107 If the B. Bp. instead of retreating, checks your K. you must interpose your Bp.

1808 J. H. Sarratt Treat. Game of Chess I. 49 If he interpose his King's Knight, you must take his Rook with your Queen.

1844 W. Lewis Treat. Game of Chess 19 Sometimes a piece or pawn, which before was out of play, may be interposed, and force the piece that checks to retire.

1861 Chambers's Encycl. II. 799/2 The king..must either move out of check or interpose some one of his subjects, unless the checking piece can be captured.

1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 593/1 If..the king, being thus in check, cannot move to another square..and there is no piece or pawn which can be interposed, and the checking piece or pawn cannot be taken, then it is ‘checkmate’.

1950 L. H. Dawson Hoyle's Games Modernized (ed. 20) 366 The player may..interpose one of his own men between the King and the attacking piece.

2. To place or station oneself between; to come between in position, to stand in the way.

†a. reflexive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be interjacent [verb (reflexive)]

entermetea1542

interposea1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 98 What watchfull Cares doe interpose themselues Betwixt your Eyes, and Night?

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 145 Two hundred of them falling into a close order, interposed themselves between them.

1711 J. Swift Misc. Prose & Verse 130 Human frailty will too often interpose itself among persons of the holiest function.

b. intransitive (for reflexive)

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be interjacent [verb (intransitive)]

relate1490

intercede1578

interject1578

interpose1615

interval1630

interline1633

mediate1641

intervenec1709

intercalate1960

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 121 We offering to returne to the other, which he fearing, interposed.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 161 The river Syndery interposing.

1748 J. Hervey Contempl. Night in Medit. & Contempl. (ed. 2) II. 83 The Earth, interposing with it's opake Body, intercepted the solar Rays.

1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. ii. 69 Three columns..moved to the right, as if intending to interpose between the lines and the town.

3. transitive. To put forth or introduce (action, authority, etc.) in the way of interference or intervention.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > intervene between [verb (transitive)] > interpose by way of intervention

intermeddle1577

interpose1606

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 13 The Senate came not betweene nor interposed their authoritie to stop the course intended against him.

1798 Earl Mornington Minutes 12 Aug. in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 42 Our arbitration..will be both acceptable and efficacious whenever it shall be interposed.

1822 C. Lamb Detached Thoughts on Bks. in Elia 2nd Ser. Expecting every moment when he [the owner] shall interpose his interdict.

4. To put oneself forward or interfere in a matter; to step in between persons at variance or in a person's behalf; to intervene.

†a. reflexive. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > intervene [verb (reflexive)]

interpose1603

society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > bring into concord [verb (reflexive)] > mediate

interpone1523

interpose1603

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 29 The Patriarch & other princes..seeing the danger..had enterposed themselues.

1606 P. Holland in tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars Annot. 36* Noble Dames, who in old time..interposed themselves as Mediatrices, betweene the Romans and Sabines.

1625 J. Ussher in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 133 If he interpose himself seriouslye herein.

1658 Earl of Monmouth tr. P. Paruta Hist. Venice ii. i. 28.

b. intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > act in another's business or intervene [verb (intransitive)]

to step in1474

to go (etc.) between the bark and the tree1546

to make in1575

intermediate1610

interposea1616

to put in1631

intervene1646

to strike ina1715

to wade in1905

the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > intercede or use influence on someone's behalf [verb (intransitive)]

ernde1225

bemean1464

intercess1556

intercession1593

intercessionate1593

intercede1606

interposea1616

mediate1616

superexpostulate1647

society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > become at peace with each other [verb (intransitive)] > mediate

stightlec1440

stickle1530

moderate1597

mediate1616

to step in1657

interpose1710

mediatize1885

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. iii. 120 Please you to interpose (faire Madam) kneele, And pray your Mothers blessing.

1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon iv. 159 It is no innovation for our Kings to interpose in ecclesiasticall affairs.

1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 224. ⁋3 I shall not interpose in their Quarrel.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. vi. 19 None interposed To avert his woeful doom.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §7. 100 The Archbishop interposed between the rival claimants to the crown.

a. transitive. To introduce between other matters, or between the parts of a narrative, as an interruption or digression; to say or pronounce as an interruption.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > interruption > interrupt (speech) [verb (transitive)] > interpose

interpone1523

interpose1605

to throw in1630

to edge in1683

to put in1693

interject1791

interjaculate1853

to drag in (into)1868

to chip in1872

interpolate1881

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ee3^v That all the Fables and fictions of the Poets, were but pleasure and not figure, I interpose no opinion.

1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 80 I shall desire leave to enterpose this parenthesis ensuing before I proceed.

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) iv. 65 To interpose a jocular, and perhaps ridiculous digression.

1783 E. Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) II. 265–6 The Historian, who, without interposing his own sentiments, has delivered a simple narrative of authentic facts.

1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh 171 The Princess..was about to interpose a faint word of objection.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 42 ‘Do not injure an innocent man,’ interposed the Prince.

b. absol. or intransitive. To interrupt, make a digression.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > interruption > interrupt or interpose [verb (intransitive)]

chop in1550

to speak in a man's cast1580

to break through1659

interpose1667

interrupt1667

to break in1705

to catch up1764

to get ina1774

to strike in1791

to get a word, etc. in edgeways1824

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 270 Here Adam interpos'd. O sent from Heav'n, Enlightner of my darkness.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 177 Here Ctesippus, the lover of Cleinias interposes in great excitement.

a1873 E. O. M. Deutsch Lit. Remains (1874) 77 We must here interpose for a moment.

II. To come or lie between.

†6.

a. transitive. To come or be in the way of (a person or thing); to intercept; to obstruct. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > stop the movement of > cause to be arrested or intercepted in progress

warna1250

foreclosec1290

dit1362

stayc1440

stopc1440

set1525

suppress1547

bar1578

frontier1589

stay1591

intercepta1599

to cut off1600

interpose1615

lodgea1616

obstruct1621

stifle1629

sufflaminate1656

stick1824

to hold up1887

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > by interference

mareOE

disturbc1386

annoyc1405

interrupta1420

ail1499

blent1530

forelay1571

intervene1588

intervent1600

interpose1615

disrupt1817

derange1848

to put a crimp in (also into, on)1889

crab1899

1615 J. Stephens Satyrical Ess. 152 We have no liberty..to judge;..when Discontents do trouble us. They interpose our brightest eminence of wisedom no otherwise than cloudes darken the Sunnes glory.

1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον v. 258 All the theeves and robbers that interposed him in his way to Athens.

1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 278 The great Rivers interposing us, together with..many other difficulties.

†b. To lie between (places); to part, separate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be or make interjacent [verb (transitive)] > be interjacent between

interpose1615

obviate1705

intercede1728

intervene1839

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 46 Arabia felix which stretcheth out into the South sea, interposing the Persian and Arabian Gulphs.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 207 Phœnicia is a province of Syria, interposing the sea and Galily.

Derivatives

interˈposed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [adjective] > placed between

interject1578

intersited1578

interposed1602

interplaced1603

interjecteda1619

entre-pressed1641

intercalary1798

interceptive1819

intercalated1849

interlaid1856

interpolated1875

in-between1898

1602 A. Heborne in T. G. Law Archpriest Controv. (1898) II. 224 Some other interposed..dealers in this business.

1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 14 Interposed flashes of this day starrs brightnesse.

1731 Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 301 No interposed Body..(unless it is magnetical)..was ever known..to impede or divert any of the Effects of a Magnet.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. vi. 43 The ridges..with their interposed fissures.

interˈposing n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > action of placing between

interposition1412

object1526

objectionc1550

interplacing1567

interjecture1578

interlarding1581

interjecting1583

chopping1587

interjection1598

interpose1610

interlocation1611

interposal1625

intermission1628

interposure1628

intercalation1649

interposing1657

interpolation1849

sandwiching1877

intrapolation1956

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 5 Wee often lose sight of them, by interposing of the waves.

1659 J. Milton Civil Power in Wks. (1851) 329 Those ends which he can likely pretend to the interposing of his force therin.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	interpose
释义	† interposen. Etymology: < interpose v. Obsolete. rare. Interposition, interposal. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > action of placing between interposition1412 object1526 objectionc1550 interplacing1567 interjecture1578 interlarding1581 interjecting1583 chopping1587 interjection1598 interpose1610 interlocation1611 interposal1625 intermission1628 interposure1628 intercalation1649 interposing1657 interpolation1849 sandwiching1877 intrapolation1956 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 154 Countries are divided by Geographers..Naturally, according to the course of rivers, and interpose of mountains. 1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 117 Dangerous humors..which, without the wise interpose of State-Physicians, presage ruine to the whole. 1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 139 Upon the interpose of such impediments. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). interposev. /ɪntəˈpəʊz/ Forms: Also 1600s enter-. Etymology: < French interposer (14th cent. in Godefroy), < Latin inter between + French poser to place (see pose n.¹); substituted for Latin interpōnĕre (see interpone v.) by form-association with inflections and derivatives of the latter, as interposition, etc.; compare compose, depose, dispose. Compare also French entreposer (12–13th cent. in Hatzfeld and Darmesteter), in Old French to place alternately or intermixedly. I. To place between. 1. a. transitive. To place between (in space or time); to put or set between or in an intermediate position; to cause to intervene. Often with implication of obstruction or delay; cf. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [verb (transitive)] > intervene between interpose1599 intercede1614 interspace1861 the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be or make interjacent [verb (transitive)] > place (a thing) between interlace1532 interlard1545 interplace1548 object1548 intersert1582 lace1595 interpose1599 interblend1605 interlay1609 enlard1621 interpone1678 intercalate1824 interpolate1827 interlocate1851 interleave1856 sandwich1861 1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. at Interpuesto Interposed, put betwixt. 1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. 25 He is not bound to doe any seruice either in his owne person, or by any other person interposed during his minority. 1647 T. May Hist. Parl. i. viii. 89 Much time was interposed betweene the severall proceedings against this Earle of Strafferd. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 75 Darkning..a colour, is onely interposing a multitude of dark or black spots among the same ting'd parts. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 37 Only a small part of the convexity of the globe is interposed between us and the sun. 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 129 The portions of the pseud-haemal system which were interposed between the digestive tract and the dorsal surface. †b. To place (things) with intervals, or in alternation, to cause to alternate. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > alternation > alternate [verb (transitive)] altern1447 entermetea1500 interchange1561 interpose1602 alternate1605 interplace1650 interleave1802 interleaf1900 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > among other things interpose1602 intersow1614 intersperse1647 chequer1677 commix1847 intersprinkle1848 thread1884 1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 356 The other [wall] of Pyles and Tymber strongly and artificially interposed. 1691 R. Baxter Of National Churches xv. 72 God can..interpose days with nights, and Summers with Winters. c. Chess. To move (a man) so as to obstruct the line of action of an opposing piece, esp. when the latter is giving check. Also absol., or with the interposed man as subject. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [verb (transitive)] > tactics to shut up1474 to take upc1475 neck1597 catch1674 to discover check1688 attack1735 retreat1744 fork1745 pin1745 retake1750 guard1761 interpose1761 castle1764 retract1777 to take (a pawn) en passant1818 capture1820 decline1847 cook1851 undouble1868 unpin1878 counter1890 fidate1910 sacrifice1915 fianchetto1927 1761 E. Hoyle Ess. Game of Chess 2, 6 B. The Queen gives Check. W. The Bishop interposes. 1765 R. Lambe Hist. Chess 107 If the B. Bp. instead of retreating, checks your K. you must interpose your Bp. 1808 J. H. Sarratt Treat. Game of Chess I. 49 If he interpose his King's Knight, you must take his Rook with your Queen. 1844 W. Lewis Treat. Game of Chess 19 Sometimes a piece or pawn, which before was out of play, may be interposed, and force the piece that checks to retire. 1861 Chambers's Encycl. II. 799/2 The king..must either move out of check or interpose some one of his subjects, unless the checking piece can be captured. 1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 593/1 If..the king, being thus in check, cannot move to another square..and there is no piece or pawn which can be interposed, and the checking piece or pawn cannot be taken, then it is ‘checkmate’. 1950 L. H. Dawson Hoyle's Games Modernized (ed. 20) 366 The player may..interpose one of his own men between the King and the attacking piece. 2. To place or station oneself between; to come between in position, to stand in the way. †a. reflexive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be interjacent [verb (reflexive)] entermetea1542 interposea1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 98 What watchfull Cares doe interpose themselues Betwixt your Eyes, and Night? View more context for this quotation 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 145 Two hundred of them falling into a close order, interposed themselves between them. 1711 J. Swift Misc. Prose & Verse 130 Human frailty will too often interpose itself among persons of the holiest function. b. intransitive (for reflexive) ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be interjacent [verb (intransitive)] relate1490 intercede1578 interject1578 interpose1615 interval1630 interline1633 mediate1641 intervenec1709 intercalate1960 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 121 We offering to returne to the other, which he fearing, interposed. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 161 The river Syndery interposing. 1748 J. Hervey Contempl. Night in Medit. & Contempl. (ed. 2) II. 83 The Earth, interposing with it's opake Body, intercepted the solar Rays. 1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. ii. 69 Three columns..moved to the right, as if intending to interpose between the lines and the town. 3. transitive. To put forth or introduce (action, authority, etc.) in the way of interference or intervention. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > intervene between [verb (transitive)] > interpose by way of intervention intermeddle1577 interpose1606 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 13 The Senate came not betweene nor interposed their authoritie to stop the course intended against him. 1798 Earl Mornington Minutes 12 Aug. in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 42 Our arbitration..will be both acceptable and efficacious whenever it shall be interposed. 1822 C. Lamb Detached Thoughts on Bks. in Elia 2nd Ser. Expecting every moment when he [the owner] shall interpose his interdict. 4. To put oneself forward or interfere in a matter; to step in between persons at variance or in a person's behalf; to intervene. †a. reflexive. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > intervene [verb (reflexive)] interpose1603 society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > bring into concord [verb (reflexive)] > mediate interpone1523 interpose1603 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 29 The Patriarch & other princes..seeing the danger..had enterposed themselues. 1606 P. Holland in tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars Annot. 36* Noble Dames, who in old time..interposed themselves as Mediatrices, betweene the Romans and Sabines. 1625 J. Ussher in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 133 If he interpose himself seriouslye herein. 1658 Earl of Monmouth tr. P. Paruta Hist. Venice ii. i. 28. b. intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > act in another's business or intervene [verb (intransitive)] to step in1474 to go (etc.) between the bark and the tree1546 to make in1575 intermediate1610 interposea1616 to put in1631 intervene1646 to strike ina1715 to wade in1905 the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > intercede or use influence on someone's behalf [verb (intransitive)] ernde1225 bemean1464 intercess1556 intercession1593 intercessionate1593 intercede1606 interposea1616 mediate1616 superexpostulate1647 society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > become at peace with each other [verb (intransitive)] > mediate stightlec1440 stickle1530 moderate1597 mediate1616 to step in1657 interpose1710 mediatize1885 a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. iii. 120 Please you to interpose (faire Madam) kneele, And pray your Mothers blessing. View more context for this quotation 1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon iv. 159 It is no innovation for our Kings to interpose in ecclesiasticall affairs. 1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 224. ⁋3 I shall not interpose in their Quarrel. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. vi. 19 None interposed To avert his woeful doom. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §7. 100 The Archbishop interposed between the rival claimants to the crown. 5. a. transitive. To introduce between other matters, or between the parts of a narrative, as an interruption or digression; to say or pronounce as an interruption. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > interruption > interrupt (speech) [verb (transitive)] > interpose interpone1523 interpose1605 to throw in1630 to edge in1683 to put in1693 interject1791 interjaculate1853 to drag in (into)1868 to chip in1872 interpolate1881 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ee3^v That all the Fables and fictions of the Poets, were but pleasure and not figure, I interpose no opinion. View more context for this quotation 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 80 I shall desire leave to enterpose this parenthesis ensuing before I proceed. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) iv. 65 To interpose a jocular, and perhaps ridiculous digression. 1783 E. Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) II. 265–6 The Historian, who, without interposing his own sentiments, has delivered a simple narrative of authentic facts. 1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh 171 The Princess..was about to interpose a faint word of objection. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 42 ‘Do not injure an innocent man,’ interposed the Prince. b. absol. or intransitive. To interrupt, make a digression. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > interruption > interrupt or interpose [verb (intransitive)] chop in1550 to speak in a man's cast1580 to break through1659 interpose1667 interrupt1667 to break in1705 to catch up1764 to get ina1774 to strike in1791 to get a word, etc. in edgeways1824 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 270 Here Adam interpos'd. O sent from Heav'n, Enlightner of my darkness. View more context for this quotation 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 177 Here Ctesippus, the lover of Cleinias interposes in great excitement. a1873 E. O. M. Deutsch Lit. Remains (1874) 77 We must here interpose for a moment. II. To come or lie between. †6. a. transitive. To come or be in the way of (a person or thing); to intercept; to obstruct. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > stop the movement of > cause to be arrested or intercepted in progress warna1250 foreclosec1290 dit1362 stayc1440 stopc1440 set1525 suppress1547 bar1578 frontier1589 stay1591 intercepta1599 to cut off1600 interpose1615 lodgea1616 obstruct1621 stifle1629 sufflaminate1656 stick1824 to hold up1887 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > by interference mareOE disturbc1386 annoyc1405 interrupta1420 ail1499 blent1530 forelay1571 intervene1588 intervent1600 interpose1615 disrupt1817 derange1848 to put a crimp in (also into, on)1889 crab1899 1615 J. Stephens Satyrical Ess. 152 We have no liberty..to judge;..when Discontents do trouble us. They interpose our brightest eminence of wisedom no otherwise than cloudes darken the Sunnes glory. 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον v. 258 All the theeves and robbers that interposed him in his way to Athens. 1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 278 The great Rivers interposing us, together with..many other difficulties. †b. To lie between (places); to part, separate. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be or make interjacent [verb (transitive)] > be interjacent between interpose1615 obviate1705 intercede1728 intervene1839 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 46 Arabia felix which stretcheth out into the South sea, interposing the Persian and Arabian Gulphs. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 207 Phœnicia is a province of Syria, interposing the sea and Galily. Derivatives interˈposed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [adjective] > placed between interject1578 intersited1578 interposed1602 interplaced1603 interjecteda1619 entre-pressed1641 intercalary1798 interceptive1819 intercalated1849 interlaid1856 interpolated1875 in-between1898 1602 A. Heborne in T. G. Law Archpriest Controv. (1898) II. 224 Some other interposed..dealers in this business. 1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 14 Interposed flashes of this day starrs brightnesse. 1731 Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 301 No interposed Body..(unless it is magnetical)..was ever known..to impede or divert any of the Effects of a Magnet. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. vi. 43 The ridges..with their interposed fissures. interˈposing n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > action of placing between interposition1412 object1526 objectionc1550 interplacing1567 interjecture1578 interlarding1581 interjecting1583 chopping1587 interjection1598 interpose1610 interlocation1611 interposal1625 intermission1628 interposure1628 intercalation1649 interposing1657 interpolation1849 sandwiching1877 intrapolation1956 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 5 Wee often lose sight of them, by interposing of the waves. 1659 J. Milton Civil Power in Wks. (1851) 329 Those ends which he can likely pretend to the interposing of his force therin. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1610v.1599
随便看	now that now then now then at erst now we shan't be long now you see etc, now you don't now you see her, now you don't now you see him, now you don't now you see it , now you don't now you see me, now you don't now you tell me now you're shouting now you're talking now you've done it now, now now-and-then now-being now-big now-declining now-departed now-famous now-forgotten now-full now-it-can-be-told now-neglected now-now

† interposen.

interposev.

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