interosculate
Dave Monroe
against.the.dave at gmail.com
Fri Jan 9 02:38:33 CST 2015
interosculate
\ in-ter-OS-kyuh-leyt \ , verb;
1. to form a connecting link.
2. to interpenetrate; inosculate.
Quotes:
How all these words in the foregoing interrelate,interosculate ,
contaminate, and ape each other.
-- Walter Redfern, “A Little Bird Tells Us: Parrots inFlaubert,
Queneau, Beckett (and Tutti Quanti ),” Laughter and Power , edited by
John Parkin and JohnPhillips, 2006
These demarcations interosculate with conflictingtwentieth-century
images of modernity and statedevelopment that have perfused the
Indonesianarchipelago.
-- Lorraine V. Aragon, Fields of the Lord , 2000
Origin:
Interosculate entered English in the late 1800s fromosculate meaning
"to come into close contact or union"and the prefix inter- meaning
"between" or “among.”
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