opposit

1. archaicnot comparableArchaic form of opposite.

   If a person has lost one tooth, the tooth opposit is of no use in mastication ...

   1920, George Starr White, Think; Side Lights, What Others Say, Clinical Cases, Etc, Digitized edition, published 2007

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   … direction of the surface of the wire, and in the opposit direction at the axis.

   1906, Egbert P. Watson, “XXV—Elementary Principles of Alternating Currents”, in The Engineer: With Which Is Incorporated Steam Engineer, volume 43 (Engineering), published 2011, page 680

   Since every primary number represents some integer (§ 160), every primary number has its opposit.

   1931, Joseph Bowden, Elements of the Theory of Intergers, Digitized edition, published 2010, page 65

   … passed the mouth of Papillion or Butter fly Creek 3 miles on the L. S. a large Sand bar opposit on that Side ...

   1996, David F. Task, quoting William Clark, 1804, The War with Spain in 1898 (Military History), U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 402

plural opposits

1. archaicArchaic form of opposite.

present singular third person opposits · participle present oppositing · participle past opposited · past opposited

1. to posit or assume as a contradictory; negative or deny