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interpone

interpone verb: to interpose; to insert or place between.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To interpose; to insert or place between.
    • Plotinus did postpone his Psyche, or soul, after the paternal Intellect; but Porphyrius interponed it betwixt the Father and the Son1678, 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: […]...

Forms of interpone

third-person singular presentinterpones
present participleinterponing
past participleinterponed
pastinterponed

Origin of interpone

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

Questions about interpone

What does interpone mean?
Interpone means to interpose; to insert or place between.
What part of speech is interpone?
Interpone is a verb.
What is the past tense of interpone?
The past tense of interpone is interponed.

Words near interpone in the dictionary

  1. interpolygonal
  2. interpolymer
  3. interpolymeric
  4. interpolymerize
  5. interpolymers
  6. interpone
  7. interponed
  8. interponent
  9. interponents
  10. interpones
  11. interponing

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