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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