a. [ad. L. apposit-us, pa. pple. of app-, adpōnĕre, f. ad to + -pōnĕre to place, put.]
† 1. Put or applied to. Obs. rare–0.
1656. in Blount.
1706. in Phillips, etc.
2. Well put or applied; appropriate, suitable (to).
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., II. ii. II. (1651), 239. A most apposite remedy.
1634. Habington, Castara (1870), 15. Her language is not copious but apposit.
1709. Swift, T. of Tub, § 3. 54. The types are so apposite.
1849. Grote, Greece, II. lv. (1862), V. 31. Mastery of apposite and homely illustrations.
1869. Goulburn, Purs. Holiness, i. 6. It is a truth most apposite to the whole argument of the present work.
† 3. Of persons: Ready with appropriate remarks, apt. Obs.
1699–1703. Pomfret, Poet. Wks. (1833), 31. In all discourse she’s apposite and gay.
1788. H. Walpole, in Reader, 7 Oct. 1865, 392/3. Qualified to talk on any subject; easy, agreeable, and apposite in their observations.
† 4. absol. or as sb. That which is placed beside or in apposition. Obs.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. IV. 516. The negation of it implies a contradiction in the Adject or an Opposite in an Apposite.
5. See OPPOSITE.
