pose2 (poz)

[F. pose, standing, attitude, posture, pose, 2. A deposit; a secret hoard. [Scotch.] help them in their old age. Laying by a little pose, even out of such earnings, to Noctes Ambrosianæ, April, 1832. =Syn. 1. Position , Attitude , etc. See posture . pose3 (poz), v . t .; pret. and pp. posed , ppr. posing . [Formerly also poze ; posen , by apheresis from apposen , aposen , a corruption of oposyn , opposen : see oppose . The method of examination in the schools being by argument, to examine was to oppose. Hence puzzle .] 11. Το put questions to; interrogate closely; question; examine. If any man rebuke them with that, they persecute him immediately, and pose him in their false doctrine, and make him an heretic. Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 104. posed him, and sifted him, to try whether he IMG:content-0692.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0693.png:[blocks in formation]