Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AP-PO-SI'TION
AP-PO-SI'TION, n.
- The act of adding to; addition; a setting to. By the apposition of new matter. – Arbuthnot.
- In grammar, the placing of two nouns, in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. In this case, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.
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