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4,111 words match “POSE”

OPPOSE v. 7 definitions

o counterbalance or countervail; to set against; to offer antagonistically. I may . . . oppose my single opinion to his. Locke.

Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. [Obs.] "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.

One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist; an adversary.

OVEREXPOSE v. 2 definitions

To expose excessively; specif. (Photog.),

Furnished with a pappus; downy.

To postpone. [Obs.] Fuller.

To compose beforehand. Johnson.

PREDISPOSE v. 2 definitions

To dispose or incline beforehand; to give a predisposition or bias to; as, to predispose the mind to friendship.

PREINDISPOSE v.

To render indisposed beforehand. Milman.

To place or set before; to prefix. [Obs.] Fuller.

To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator. Each [kind of knowledge] presupposes many necessary things learned in other sciences, and known beforehand. Hooker.

PROPOSE v. 7 definitions

To set forth. [Obs.] That being proposed brimfull of wine, one scarce could lift it up. Chapman.

PROPOSER n. 2 definitions

One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption.

PURPOSE n. 6 definitions

aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer. As my eternal purpose hath decreed. Milton. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it. Shak.

PURPOSEDLY adv.

In a purposed manner; according to purpose or design; purposely. A poem composed purposedly of the Trojan war. Holland.

Important; material. "Purposeful accounts." Tylor. -- Pur"pose*ful*ly, adv.

Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.

With purpose or design; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly. In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths. Atterbury. So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they purposely go wrong. Pope.

PURPOSER n. 2 definitions

One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. [Obs.]

RECOMPOSE v. 2 definitions

To compose again; to form anew; to put together again or repeatedly. The far greater number of the objects presented to our observation can only be decomposed, but not actually recomposed. Sir W. Hamilton.