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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A prefix of Latin origin, signifying ‘near, together, in close proximity.’ See juxtaposition, juxtapose, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. In males of most species of order Lepidoptera, an organ that supports the aedeagus and is located between the two valvae.
Etymologies
- From Latin iuxta. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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
“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
“Hebdomoda sexagesima quinta juxta Danielis prophetiam:”
“Just juxta-posit 'all things Russian' for 'all things USA' and you get my meaning ...”
“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.”
“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.”
“As a man, by a yard, finds two houses to be of the same length, to measure their equality by juxta-position.”
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Neighboring, Near or Close To
Adjectives meaning neighboring, near or close to
proximate, propinquant, propinquitous, propinque, juxta, propinquous, apposite, neighboring, adjacent, proximous, proximal, contiguous and 7 more...
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biocon According to OED, juxta (adjective) means next-lying, immediately adjacent. Jul 19, 2012