apposition

[In Ger. & Fr. apposition; Sp. aposicion; Port. apposição; Ital. apposizione; from Lat. appositio.] A. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of placing to or adding to. 2. The state of being placed to or added to. certain bones, placed more or le in appo sition with it."- Flower : Osteol. of Mammal i a, p. 12. B. Technically : Gram.: The placing of two nouns or pronouns which are in the same case in juxtaposition with each other, without, however, connecting them by a conjunction. The word placed in apposition to the other does not so much add a completely new idea to that conveyed by the first one, as it explains that first. Examples: "She walks a queen," " It is I," "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." In these sentences queen is in apposition with she, I with it , and Prince with Hamlet. She , I , and Prince are all in the nominative case.