interpone

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verb

To interpose; to insert or place between.

OriginLatin interponere →
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Meanings

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

present singular third person interpones · participle present interponing · participle past interponed · past interponed

  1. transitiveTo 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 Son

    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

Origin

  1. Latininterponere
  2. Englishinterpone

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

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

neopterinepinetronperitenonpreintone
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APA

interpone. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interpone

MLA

“interpone.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interpone. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “interpone,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interpone.

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