interpose
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1. interpose - Noun
2. interpose - Verb
Meaning
To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light.
To thrust; to intrude; to between, either for aid or for troubling.
To introduce or inject between the parts of a conversation or argument.
To be or come between.
To step in between parties at variance; to mediate; as, the prince interposed and made peace.
To utter a sentiment by way of interruption.
Interposition.
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Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not.
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.
To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight.
All active mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world.
When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece.