appose

To interrogate; to question.

I shal assaye hir my-self · and sothelich appose / What man of þis worlde · þat hire were leueste.

Then gan Authority her to appose / With peremptorie powre […].

To place next or to or near to; to juxtapose.

To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).

The nymph herself did then appose, / For food and beverage, to him all best meat.