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Apposed :: Apposed (a.) Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak..

Appositive :: Appositive (a.) Of or relating to apposition; in apposition.

Apposition :: Apposition (n.) The act of adding; application; accretion.

Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. i.) To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose..

Parathesis :: Parathesis (n.) The placing of two or more nouns in the same case; apposition.

Apposition :: Apposition (n.) The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed..

Of :: Of (prep.) Denoting identity or equivalence; -- used with a name or appellation, and equivalent to the relation of apposition; as, the continent of America; the city of Rome; the Island of Cuba..

To :: To (prep.) Apposition; connection; antithesis; opposition; as, they engaged hand to hand..

Apposition :: Apposition (n.) The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first..

Appositional :: Appositional (a.) Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically.

Appositive :: Appositive (n.) A noun in apposition.

Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. t.) To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body..

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