apposite, a.
(ˈæpəzɪt)
[ad. L. apposit-us, pa. pple. of app-, adpōnĕre, f. ad to + -pōnĕre to place, put.]
† 1. Put or applied to. Obs. rare—0.
| 1656 in Blount, 1706 in Phillips, etc. |
2. Well put or applied; appropriate, suitable (to).
| 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. ii. (1651) 239 A most apposite remedy. 1634 Habington Castara (1870) 15 Her language is not copious but apposit. 1709 Swift T. of Tub §3. 54 The types are so apposite. 1849 Grote Greece ii. lv. (1862) V. 31 Mastery of apposite and homely illustrations. 1869 Goulburn Purs. Holiness i. 6 The truth most apposite to the whole argument. |
† 3. Of persons: Ready with appropriate remarks, apt. Obs.
| 1699–1703 Pomfret Poet. Wks. (1833) 31 In all discourse she's apposite and gay. 1788 H. Walpole in Reader 7 Oct. 1865, 392/3 Qualified to talk on any subject; easy, agreeable, and apposite in their observations. |
† 4. absol. or as n. That which is placed beside or in apposition. Obs.
| 1677 Gale Crt. Gent. II. iv. 516 The negation of it implies a contradiction in the Adject or an Opposite in an Apposite. |
5. See opposite.