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sepose

sepose verb: to set apart.

Verb

sepose (third-person singular simple present seposes, present participle seposing, simple past and past participle seposed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To set apart.
    • This is the harmony, this is the resurrection of a Christian, in this respect, that his soul be always so fixed upon God, as that he do nothing but with relation to his glory principally, and habitually; that he think of God, at all times, but that, besides that, he sepose sometimes, to think of...1626 April 12, John Donne, Sermon on 1 Corinthians xv. 29.; republished as “Sermon XIX”, in The Works of John Donne, D.D., volume 1, London: John W. Parker, 1839, page 373
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To go apart.

Forms of sepose

third-person singular presentseposes
present participleseposing
past participleseposed
pastseposed

Origin of sepose

Latin se- (“aside”) + English pose.

Questions about sepose

What does sepose mean?
Sepose means to set apart.
What part of speech is sepose?
Sepose is a verb.
What is the past tense of sepose?
The past tense of sepose is seposed.

Words near sepose in the dictionary

  1. seponates
  2. seponating
  3. seponation
  4. sepoose
  5. sepopt
  6. sepose
  7. seposed
  8. seposes
  9. seposing
  10. sepositoside
  11. sepoy

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