[a. F. juxtaposition (1690 in Hatz.-Darm.), f. L. juxtā + F. position.] The action of placing two or more things close together or side by side, or one thing with or beside another; the condition of being so placed.
1665. Glanvill, Scepsis Sci., vii. 37. Parts, that are united by a meer juxta-position.
1680. Boyle, Scept. Chem., II. 140. There is but a Juxta-position of separable Corpuscles.
1690. Locke, Hum. Und., IV. ii. § 2. When the Mind cannot so bring its Ideas together, as by their … Juxta-position or Application one to another, to perceive their Agreement or Disagreement.
1707. Curios. in Husb. & Gard., 29. Plants … receive their Nourishment by Intus-susception, and … grow not like Stones, by Juxta-Position.
1840. Mrs. F. Trollope, Widow Married, xxv. The ineffable two hours of their juxta-position at the dinner-table.
1868. Freeman, Norm. Conq., II. App. 597. The juxtaposition of the words which follow is remarkable.
Hence Juxtapositional a., relating to or characterized by juxtaposition.
1863. Smith’s Dict. Bible, III. 1539–40. Our own language, though classed as inflectional … is in many respects as isolating and juxtapositional as any language of that class.
1868. Max Müller, Rede Lect., II. in Sel. Ess. (1881), I. 84. The three stages in the history of the Aryan languages, the juxtapositional, the combinatory and the inflectional.
