The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interpose \In`ter*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interposed; p. pr. & vb. n. Interposing.] [F. interposer. See Inter-, and Pose, v. t.]
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To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light.
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations.
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To thrust; to intrude; to put between, either for aid or for troubling.
What watchful cares do interpose themselves Betwixt your eyes and night?
--Shak.The common Father of mankind seasonably interposed his hand, and rescues miserable man.
--Woodward. To introduce or inject between the parts of a conversation or argument.
--Milton.
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vb. (present participle of interpose English)
Usage examples of "interposing".
But the Demon of Sophistry, who first taught self-deceiving man how to make “the wish father to the thought,” here interposing, whispered to the incipient lover that his father had reformed, and why not then Gaut Gurley?
Elwood had not ceased to think of her as of some good angel, sent by an interposing Providence, in answer to the agonizing supplications which immediately preceded her unexpected appearance at the time,—sent to be the means, in some unforeseen way, of extricating her family from the fatal influences, as she viewed them, under which they had insidiously been brought by their different connections with the Gurleys.
And so, for the next half-hour, he went on, ranting and raving, till the court, interposing, assured him that the witness' last story would not be treated as testimony in the case.
Mandor immediately rose, circled the table, and refilled her goblet, interposing himself between us.
So with a great musician (it appears that this was the case with Vinteuil when he played the piano), his playing is that of so fine a pianist that one cannot even be certain whether the performer is a pianist at all, since (not interposing all that mechanism of muscular effort, crowned here and there with brilliant effects, all that spattering shower of notes in which at least .