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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



... hear the reader interpose, "What, then, is chivalry if it is not a question of serving woman ...
— The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage • Almroth E. Wright
... butter. The fact is, they doubt God's personal interposition in the affairs of men; consequently, their affairs get muddled, and their hearts and minds are disturbed, often to distraction. No truth is more plainly taught than that God does interpose. 'In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.' 'The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.' 'Who is he that shall harm you if ye be followers of that which is good?' 'No weapon that is ...
— Standards of Life and Service • T. H. Howard
... and had told also what she intended to do. Dorothy, who was in truth horrified at the iniquity of the fact which was related, and who never dreamed of doubting the truth of her aunt's information, hardly knew how to interpose. "I am sure mamma won't let there be anything wrong," she ...
— He Knew He Was Right • Anthony Trollope
... glory of the Epicurean philosophy. To accomplish this, God must be placed at an infinite distance from the universe, and must be represented as indifferent to every thing that transpires within it. We "must beware of making the Deity interpose here, for that Being we ought to suppose exempt from all occupation, and perfectly happy,"[808]—that is, absolutely impassible. God did not make the world, and he does not govern the world. There is no evidence of design or intelligence in its structure, ...
— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker
... to measures of compromise. The situation was one of the deepest gravity. In the House a committee of thirty-three was raised, and in the Senate a committee of thirteen, to look into the situation. But there was no Henry Clay to interpose, with tact and broad statesmanship, at the ...
— Robert Toombs - Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage • Pleasant A. Stovall


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