apportionment (aporshonment)

[ sus. not yet very strictly applied.] (6) The allotment of direct taxes on the basis of population: a Con apposable (a-po za-bl), a. [ power rarely exercised. Capable of being apposed or brought together. apposel (a-pōz'), v. t.; pret. and pp. apposed, ppr. apposing. [F. apposer, to lay, put, or add to, destinate, appoint, repr. L. apponere, adponere, pp. appositus, adpositus (cf. apposite ), put or lay at, near, or by, apply to, add, IMG:content-1003.png:[blocks in formation] 276 The common church office was us'd for the King without naming the person, with some other, apposite to the nece ity and circumstances of the time. Evelyn, Diary, June, Whit sunday, 1693. What influence, I say, would these prayers have, were they delivered with a due emphasis, and apposite rising and variation of voice? Steele , Spectator, No. 147. 31. Apt; ready in speech or answer: said of persons. appositely (ap'ō-zit-li), adv. In an apposite manner; suitably; fitly; appropriately; pertinently. appositene (ap'ō-zit-nes), n. The state or quality of being apposite; fitne ; propriety; suitablene . A knowledge of the primitive sense of a word very often enables us to discover a force and fitne in its modern applications which we had never suspected before, and accordingly to employ it with greater propriety and appo site ne . G. P. Marsh, Lectures on Eng. Lang., p. 106. apposition (ap-o-zish'on), n. [ F.apposition = Pr. appozicio Sp. aposicion =Pg. apposição = It. apposizione , appositio ( n- ) , adpositio ( n- ), a placing by or near, setting before, application, apponere , pp. appositus : see apposel , ap posite.] 1. The act of adding to or together; a setting to; application; a placing together; juxtaposition. The apposition of new matter. Arbuthnot , Choice of Aliments. Placing in apposition the two ends of a divided nerve does not re-establish nervous communication. H. Spencer , Prin. of Psychol., § 25. 2. In gram.: (a) The relation to a noun (or pronoun) of another noun, or in some cases of an adjective or a clause, that is added to it by way of explanation or characterization, Thus, "Cicero, the orator, lived in the first century before Christ"; "On him, their second Providence, they hung." In languages that distinguish cases, the noun in apposition is in the same case as the word to which it is apposed. The same term is also used of an adjective that stands to the noun (or pronoun) to which it refers in a le close relation than the proper attributive, being added rather parenthetically, or by way of substitute for a qualifying clause. Thus, "They sang Darius, great and good "; "Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again." Rarely, it is applied to a clause, whether substantive or adjec manner. Compare attributive and predicative. (b) The tive, that a noun (or pronoun) in an equivalent relation of two or more nouns (or a noun and pronoun) in the same construction, under the Chapman , Iliad, His power having wrought The king already to appose his hand. Chapman and Shirley , Chabot, Admiral of France, i. 2. To bring near or next, as one thing to an other; put side by side; arrange in juxtaposi tion. See you how the people stand in heaps, Each man sad looking on his appos'd object? Dekker and Webster (?), Sir Thomas Wyat, p. 37.