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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Ĭn'ter-po-sĭ'tion, n.

noun

(-po-zĭsh'un), n. [Lat. interpositio, Fr. interposition, Pr. interpozicio, Sp. interposicion, It. interposizione. See INTERPOSE.]

  1. A being, placing, or coming between; intervention; as, the interposition of the Baltic Sea between Germany and Sweden.
  2. Intervenient agency; as, the interposition of the magistrate in quieting sedition.
  3. Mediation; agency between parties; as, by the interposition of a common friend, the parties have been reconciled.
  4. Any thing interposed. Milton.