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To interpose; to insert or place between. [R.] Cudworth.

One who, or that which, interposes; an interloper, an opponent. [R.] Heywood.

To oppose. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The act of opening an academical disputation; the proposition of objections to a tenet, as an exercise for a degree. [Eng.] Todd.

tains it. How becomingly does Philopolis exercise his office, and seasonably commit the opponent with the respondent, like a long-practiced moderator! Dr. H. More.

e; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely. His praise postponed, and never to be paid. Cowper.

The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay. Macaulay.

The act of postponing, in sense 2. [Obs.] Johnson.

One who postpones.

The state of being predisposed; predisposition. [R.]

That which predisposes. Predisponent causes. (Med.) See Predisposing causes, under Predispose. Dunglison.

To propose; to bring forward.

Making proposals; proposing.

To replace. R. Baillie.

Furnished with weapons, or arms; armed; equipped.

To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. 'Tis a needfu…

Adjournment; postponement. [R.] "An adjournal of the Diet." Sir W. Scott.

The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

(Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.

A postponement of the decision of a cause, for further consideration or re-argument.