单词 | interposition |
释义 | interpositionn. The action of interpose v. 1. a. The action of placing something or oneself between; the fact of being placed or situated between; intervention. 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 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. v. (Digby 230) lf. 38 b/1 So þe mone haþ made diuisioun By here sodein interposicioun. a1527 R. Thorne in R. Hakluyt Divers Voy. (1582) sig. B4v If..the Sea do extende, without interposition of lande. 1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. F.i v One verse either immediatly, or by mutuall interposition, may be aunswerable to an other. 1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent ii. 11 Without the Interposition of a Female Parent. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lviii. 272 He made the cell..black by the interposition of his body. 1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire ii. 7 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-concrete, that which is interposed. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > that which is interjacent > something interposed interjection1598 intercalation1649 interposition1650 interpositive1650 interlineary1670 interlocation1834 interpolation1851 interlay1901 1650 O. Cromwell Let. 4 Sept. in Writings & Speeches (1939) (modernized text) II. 322 The enemy,..gathered towards the hills; labouring to make a perfect interposition between us and Berwick. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 58 A Narrative..which though it may appear too great an interposition to our travel, will..I hope find acceptance. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 222 A shelter and a kind of shading cool Interposition, as a summers cloud. View more context for this quotation 1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth iv. 278 The Seasons were..without any quick Interpositions of Day and Night to disturb them. 1834 R. Southey Doctor I. 104 I will not..call these intervening chapters either Interpellations or Interpositions, or Interlocations, or Intervals. 2. The action of interfering or intervening in a matter; intervention between persons or in a person's behalf; interference, mediation. With an and plural, an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [noun] interventionc1425 interposition1462 striking1530 intercourse1586 entermise1600 intervening1605 intermitter1611 interposal1625 interveniencea1627 intermission1628 interveniency1660 the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > [noun] erndinga1000 mediationa1387 advocacyc1390 mediacya1425 meanc1450 moyen1454 interposition1462 mean1465 myance?a1513 advocation1532 intercession1534 advocateship?1555 intercessionment1593 interceding1600 intermise1612 means-making1617 intermission1647 interposal1687 spoke1867 1462 J. Gloys in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 250 Lete sum interpretour go a-twix you and my mastres your moder. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 258 Nature in Generall disavoweth hir [Reason's] jurisdiction, and interposition. 1670 Ld. North Narr. Passages Long Parl. in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1748) I. 8 The Pacification was effected wholly by Interposition of the English Commissioners. 1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth iv. 218 'Tis not very easy..exactly to determine how far, and in what particulars, a supernatural or miraculous Interposition of the Divine Power is concern'd. 1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. i. 16 By the immediate interposition of Providence. 1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. xii. 425 His interpositions in her favour became more cold. 1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early 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. 1877 W. Sparrow Serm. xxii. 298 In the matter of religion, man needs the direct interposition of divine authority. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > discursiveness or digression > a digression sojournc1330 digressionc1374 adigression1483 start1534 interposition1553 vagary1572 excursion1574 excourse1579 parecbasis1584 parenthesis1594 transversal1612 evagation1618 passage1625 far-about1639 excurrency1650 deviation1665 parathesis1668 alieniloquy1727 side-slip1843 excursus1845 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 89v Some vse so manye interpositions, bothe in their talke and in their writinge, that they make their sayinges as darke as hell. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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