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Interpose   /ˌɪntərpˈoʊz/   Listen
verb
Interpose  v. t.  (past & past part. interposed; pres. part. interposing)  
1.
To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light. "Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations."
2.
To thrust; to intrude; to put between, either for aid or for troubling. "What watchful cares do interpose themselves Betwixt your eyes and night?" "The common Father of mankind seasonably interposed his hand, and rescues miserable man."
3.
To introduce or inject between the parts of a conversation or argument.


Interpose  v. i.  
1.
To be or come between. "Long hid by interposing hill or wood."
2.
To step in between parties at variance; to mediate; as, the prince interposed and made peace.
3.
To utter a sentiment by way of interruption.
Synonyms: To intervene; intercede; mediate; interfere; intermeddle. To Interpose, Intermeddle, Interfere. A man may often interpose with propriety in the concerns of others; he can never intermeddle without being impertinent or officious; nor can be interfere without being liable to the same charge, unless he has rights which are interfered with. "In our practical use, interference is something offensive. It is the pushing in of himself between two parties on the part of a third who was not asked, and is not thanked for his pains, and who, as the feeling of the word implies, had no business there; while interposition is employed to express the friendly, peacemaking mediation of one whom the act well became, and who, even if he was not specially invited thereunto, is still thanked for what he has done."


noun
Interpose  n.  Interposition. (Obs.)





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"Interpose" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sidney had hastened up to interpose between the French and the Turks, and to make fresh proposals of accommodation. Letters, they said, had just been written to London, and, when the convention of El Arish was known there, it would be ratified to a certainty; in this situation, it would not be ...
— History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 12 (of 12) • S. Rappoport
... to interpose, but he said: "Gentlemen, I must ask you to let the matter go on. This is no ordinary duel. These gentlemen, with whom I have no personal animosity, have picked a quarrel with me at the request of one higher in rank than themselves, and are simply his agents. I had no hesitation ...
— Won by the Sword - A Story of the Thirty Years' War • G.A. Henty
... are that interpose between us and our duty! You have found it so in your own experience, haven't you, ...
— The Evolution of Dodd • William Hawley Smith
... time before we have done with what Guillemin calls "the interesting, almost insoluble question, of the existence of living and organized beings on the surface of the satellite of our little earth." [425] Some cynic may interpose ...
— Moon Lore • Timothy Harley
... taint of Voltaire's dust. But now the Republic is once more established on the ruins of monarchy and imperialism, it again secularises the Church of St. Genevieve as a tomb for its mighty dead. The Church is naturally indignant, but its anathemas are powerless. God does not interpose, and the Republic is too strong. Nay, there is even a rumor that the Roman Pantheon may be secularised also, and changed into a national mausoleum, where the youth of Italy may bend reverently before the tombs of such glorious soldiers ...
— Flowers of Freethought - (First Series) • George W. Foote


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