APPOSITION, the Act of putting or applying one thing to another. See APPLICATION. Apposition is used in Physics, with respect to Bodies, which derive their Growth from the Adjunction or Union of neighboring Bodies. See ADJUNCTION.
Most Bodies of the fossil or mineral Kingdom, are formed by Juxtaposition, or the Apposition of Parts, brought to join and adhere to each other. See ACCRETION.
Apposition, in Grammar, is the putting two or more Substantives together in the same Case, and without any copular Conjunction between them.
See SUBSTANTIVE, CONJUNCTION, COPULATIVE, etc.
Thus, Flanders, bloody theatre, horrible scene of war.
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