APPOSI'TION, noun 1. The act of adding to; addition; a setting to. By the opposition of new matter. 2. In Grammar, the placing of two nouns, in the same case, without a connecting word between them, as, I admire Cicero, the orator. In this case, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.
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