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One who recomposes.

To dispose anew or again; to readjust; to rearrange. A. Baxter.

To impose anew.

To oppose again.

posit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit. [Obs.] But these thy fortunes let us straight repose In this divine cave's bosom. Chapman. Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth . . . are left behind. Woodward.

Composed; calm; tranquil; at rest. Bacon. -- Re*pos"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*pos"ed*ness, n.

Full of repose; quiet.

One who reposes.

Voluntarily taken on one's self; as, self-imposed tasks.

To set apart. [Obs.] Donne.

Composed of, or having, tufted or matted filaments like tow; stupeous.

To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum. -- Su`per*im`po*si"tion, n.

a manner that all the parts of the one coincide with the parts of the other; as, to superpose one plane figure on another.

t to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration; to assume to be true; as, let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the result Suppose they take offence without a cause. Shak. When we have as great assurance that a thing is, as we could possibly, supposing it were, we ought not to mak…

One who supposes.

of; to substitute one for the other of; to exchange, in respect of position; as, to transpose letters, words, or propositions.

One who transposes.

Indisposition; disinclination.

Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible. A priori, that is, form these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possi…

Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal. "The aboral or abactinal area." L. Agassiz.