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The quality of being apportioned or in proportion.
of Apportion
One who apportions.
of Apportion
The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property.
To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose.
To place in juxtaposition or proximity.
To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).
Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.
An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.
Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case.
The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.
The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
The act of adding; application; accretion.
Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically.
A noun in apposition.
Of or relating to apposition; in apposition.
Capable of being appraised.
A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement.
To praise; to commend.