Crossword-Solution: APPOSITION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Apposition | n. | The act of adding; application; accretion. |
| Apposition | n. | The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed. |
| Apposition | n. | 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. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “APPOSITION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Contiguity, grammatically | 1 answer |
| IN same case, etc. | 1 answer |
| Putting side by side. | 1 answer |
| the position of a word parallel to another in syntactic relation | 1 answer |
| Juxtaposition | 35 answers |
| ABUTMENT | 42 answers |
| consistency | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZECEMA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with APPOSITION (5)
When in apposition with any body, it suffers variable degrees of decomposition, resulting in color, as by reflection, dispersion, refraction, and unequal absorption.
The wooden statue so well known as the Palladium of Troy was placed in close apposition with the wooden head of General Jackson, which was stolen a few years since from the bows of the frigate Constitution.
But their iterated clamations to excitate their dying or dead friends, or revoke them unto life again, was a vanity of affection; as not presumably ignorant of the critical tests of death, by apposition of feathers, glasses, and reflection of figures, which dead eyes represent not: which, however not strictly verifiable in fresh and warm _cadavers_, could hardly elude the test, in corpses of four or five days.
Huff details a description of the "Jones twins," born on June 24, 1889, in Tipton County, Indiana, whose spinal columns were in apposition at the lower end.
The edges of the wound were brought into apposition by sutures, and after the removal of the latter perfect union and complete restoration of the sensation of taste ensued.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1965–1984).