interpone

See also: interponé

English

Etymology

From Latin interponere; inter (“between”) + ponere (“to place”). See position.

Verb

interpone (third-person singular simple present interpones, present participle interponing, simple past and past participle interponed)

1. To interpose; to insert or place between.
   • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:

     Plotinus did postpone his Psyche, or soul, after the paternal Intellect; but Porphyrius interponed it betwixt the Father and the Son

References

“interpone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• epinetron, neopterin, peritenon, tin opener, tin-opener

Italian

Verb

interpone

1. third-person singular present indicative of interporre

Anagrams

• penetrino, repentino, riponente

Latin

Verb

interpōne

1. second-person singular present active imperative of interpōnō

Spanish

Verb

interpone

1. third-person singular present indicative of interponer