INTERPOSI'TION, noun [Latin interpositio.] 1. A being, placing or coming between; intervention; as the interposition of the Baltic sea between Germany and Sweden. The interposition of the moon between the earth and the sun occasions a solar eclipse. 2. Intervenient agency; as the interposition of the magistrate in quieting sedition. How many evidences have we of divine interposition in favor of good men! 3. Mediation; agency between parties. By the interposition of a common friend, the parties have been reconciled. 4. Any thing interposed.
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