interpone
See also: interponé
English
Etymology
From Latin interponere; inter (“between”) + ponere (“to place”). See position.
Verb
interpone (third-person singular simple present interpones, present participle interponing, simple past and past participle interponed)
- To interpose; to insert or place between.
- 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
- Plotinus did postpone his Psyche, or soul, after the paternal Intellect; but Porphyrius interponed it betwixt the Father and the Son
References
“interpone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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