† interˈposure Obs.
[f. interpose v. + -ure; cf. composure, disposure, exposure.]
The action of interposing; interposition, interposal.
| 1627 Feltham Resolves i. xx. (1677) 37 Though other interposures do eclipse her; yet this is a principal. 1653 H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. x. 31 The Mahometan Merchant, that he might the more easily redeem me, used the interposure of a man born in the Country. 1689 W. Dillingham Myst. Iniq. 13 The..Interposure of several Parliaments for removing the Grounds of our Differences and Animosities, by an Indulgence. 1733 Watts Philos. Ess. ix. ii. (1734) 206 To represent the great Engine of this visible World, as moving onward in its appointed Course, without the continual interposure of His Hand. |