Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A prefix of Latin origin, signifying ‘near, together, in close proximity.’ See
juxtaposition , juxtapose, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun In males of most species of order
Lepidoptera , an organ that supports theaedeagus and is located between the twovalvae .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word juxta.
Examples
-
I just put it in juxta position with your sweeping presumption that "It's all about politics rather than science" and that "If that turns out to be a net liability, [Dawkins will] have a change of heart."
Dawkins Regards a Supernatural Designer as a Scientific Hypothesis 2007
-
You "put it in juxta-position" for a reason, and the intent – I'm using my psychic powers here – was to equate.
Dawkins Regards a Supernatural Designer as a Scientific Hypothesis 2007
-
Hebdomoda sexagesima quinta juxta Danielis prophetiam:
Archive 2009-01-01 bls 2009
-
Hebdomoda sexagesima quinta juxta Danielis prophetiam:
On the 9th Day of Christmas bls 2009
-
Just juxta-posit 'all things Russian' for 'all things USA' and you get my meaning ...
-
Thirdly, That we cannot have an intuitive knowledge that shall extend itself to all our ideas, and all that we would know about them; because we cannot examine and perceive all the relations they have one to another, by juxta-position, or an immediate comparison one with another.
-
When the cause is extrinsical, and the effect produced by a sensible separation, or juxta-position of discernible parts, we call it making; and such are all artificial things.
-
This, as has been already observed, is seen only by the eye, or the perceptive faculty, of the mind, taking a view of them laid together, in a juxta-position; which view of any two it has equally, whenever they are laid together in any proposition, whether that proposition be placed as a major or a minor, in a syllogism or no.
-
In this case then, when the mind cannot so bring its ideas together as by their immediate comparison, and as it were juxta-position or application one to another, to perceive their agreement or disagreement, it is fain, by the intervention of other ideas (one or more, as it happens) to discover the agreement or disagreement which it searches; and this is that which we call reasoning.
-
Being to be nothing else but a composition of particles of matter, each whereof is incogitative, is to ascribe all the wisdom and knowledge of that eternal Being only to the juxta-position of parts; than which nothing can be more absurd.
biocon commented on the word juxta
According to OED, juxta (adjective) means next-lying, immediately adjacent.
July 19, 2012