Definition of "appose"

appose¹

/əˈpəʊz/

verb
third-person singular simple present apposes, present participle apposing, simple past and past participle apposed
1. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
  Quotations
  I shal assaye hir my-self · and sothelich appose / What man of þis worlde · þat hire were leueste.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
  c. 1370–1390, [William Langland], “[Passus III]”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...], London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550
  Then gan Authority her to appose / With peremptorie powre […].
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie

appose²

/əˈpəʊz/

verb
third-person singular simple present apposes, present participle apposing, simple past and past participle apposed
1. (transitive) To place next or to or near to; to juxtapose.
2. (transitive) To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).
  Quotations
  The nymph herself did then appose, / For food and beverage, to him all best meat.
  1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volumes (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857,