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inter-, prefix
The Latin preposition and adv., inter ‘between, among, amid, in between, in the midst’, entered into combination with verbs, adjs., and ns., as in intercēdĕre to go between, intercede, intercipĕre to seize on the way, intercept, interdīcĕre to interpose in speech, interdict, interjacĕre to throw between, interject, interpōnĕre to put between, interpose, intervenīre to come between, intervene, intercalāris intercalary, interdigitālis lying between the fingers, interfluus flowing between, intermedius intermediate, intermūrālis between walls; interamnium a place between rivers, intercilium the space between the eyebrows, intercolumnium the space between two columns, internuntius a messenger between, interregnum the time between two reigns, intervallum the space between two ramparts, interval. Some of these uses received great extension in late L. and the Romanic languages.
Of all these classes representatives are found in English, the earlier derived through French, the later often immediately from Latin. The Fr. form of the prefix is entre-, and it was with entre- or enter-, as in entrechange, entercourse, enterfere, that these words were taken into ME., and new compounds formed in Eng. itself: see enter-. But, between the 15th and 17th centuries, entre-, enter- gradually yielded to the L. inter-; entertain and enterprise, with their derivatives, being now the only relics of the earlier form. On the pattern of the words from L., many new derivatives have been formed from L. (or Gr.) elements: esp. the adjs. formed on the type (rare in L.) of inter-mūr-ālis: see 4 below.
In some cases English received from Latin and French both the simple word and its inter- compound: such are change, inter-change, commune, inter-commune, view, inter-view, column, inter-column. By extension from such compounds, inter- became a living prefix, freely used to form new compounds upon verbs, nouns, and adjs., not merely of Latin and French, but of native English origin, as in inter-twine, inter-talk, inter-brain, inter-tidal. Finally, the same process which produced such adjs. as anti-slavery, anti-vaccination, anti-war (see anti- 4), has produced the adjs. inter-college, inter-island, inter-town, inter-university.
The following are the uses of the prefix as an English formative element.
I. In adverbial or adjectival relation to the second element.
1. Prefixed to verbs, participles, vbl. ns., and ppl. adjs., to form verbs, etc.
These are entered here in the uninflected form as verbs, but some of them are exemplified only in the form of participles or vbl. ns. As a rule, wherever there is a verb compounded with inter-, the usual derivatives (vbl. n. and ppl. a. in -ing, agent-n. in -er) are possible. Some of the verbs may be regarded as formed from ns., e.g. intercloud, -dash, -layer, -mesh, -net, -word. The stress is on the radical element.
a. Denoting ‘Between or among other things or persons; between the parts of, in the intervals of, or in the midst of, something; together with; between times or places, at intervals, here and there’: as interbreathe (interbreathing vbl. n.), inter-chase, inter-check, inter-circle, inter-cloud, inter-come, inter-crust, inter-curl, inter-dash, inter-distinguish (also interdistinguishable adj.), inter-file (interfiling vbl. n.), inter-fillet, inter-flash, inter-forge, inter-gild (in pa. pple. inter-gilt), inter-insert, inter-involve, inter-layer, inter-lie (in pres. pple. inter-lying), inter-lighten, inter-lot, inter-mention, inter-pave, inter-peal, inter-receive, inter-rule, inter-set, † inter-situate, inter-smile, inter-sole, inter-squeeze, inter-tinge, inter-trace, inter-whistle, inter-word. With an intr. verb, inter- sometimes stands in prepositional relation to a following noun, the verb thus becoming trans. with the noun as obj.; as interwend (to wend or pass between).
Such formations with enter- are found in 15th c., and with inter- from 16th c.: cf. interplace. Words of this form are much used by S. Daniel c 1600.
1818Keats Endym. ii. 664 He..exhaled asphodel, And rose, with spicy fannings *interbreathed.
a1834Coleridge Notes & Lect. (1874) 318 A harshness unrelieved by any lyrical *inter-breathings.
1620T. Robinson Mary Magd. i. 37 The Chrystall windowes too, were *interchast With Iacynths, Diamonds, and Sappheirs blew[e].
1821Byron Cain i. i. 453 Sorrow, *Intercheck'd with an instant of brief pleasure.
1821Southey Vis. Judgem. i. 54 The regions of Paradise, sphere within sphere *intercircled.
1595Daniel Civ. Wars iv. xxv, None the least blacknes *interclouded had So faire a day.
1606Proc. agst. Garnet Rr j b, Notwithstanding the pope's *intercoming to make himself a party in the quarrel.
1578Banister Hist. Man i. 21 These Spondils are..obliquely cut, and *intercrusted with Cartilages.
a1586Sidney Arcadia i. (1622) 59 Queene Helen, whose Iacinth haire..*intercurled by art (like a fine brooke through golden sands) had a rope of faire pearle.
1780Cowper Table Talk 538 A prologue *interdash'd with many a stroke, An art contriv'd to advertise a joke.
1657W. Rand tr. Gassendi's Life Peiresc I. 196 Figures..white, in a black Sea, *interdistinguished with a certain..yellowishnesse.
1950J. Lawler H. W. Wilson Co. vii. 111 Specially trained women..handle the task of *interfiling the metal linotype slugs. Ibid. 112 The Production Department staff interfiles the new and old slips of copy. 1962Y. Malkiel in Householder & Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 15 Interfiling..of authentic word cards. 1967Cox & Dews in Cox & Grose Organiz. Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer ii. 16 Anonymous works are frequently interfiled by title in author catalogues. 1967C. J. Duncan Ibid. 41 The insertion of special sorts or ‘pi-characters’ has been the traditional inter-filing solution adopted.
1868Browning Ring & Bk. i. 138 A Latin cramp enough..But *interfilleted with Italian streaks.
1857–8Sears Athan. xvii. 144 Nothing hinders the *interflashings of the sunshine.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 408 With these..orthodoxall confessions some Pagan impieties..were *interforged.
1684Lond. Gaz. No. 1980/4 A Silver Hilted Sword *Intergilt with Gold.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 41 Stories..not fit to be *inter⁓inserted with this.
1865Masson Rec. Brit. Philos. 232 A logic that should profess to..*interinvolve the thought of nothing..with the thought of Absolute Being.
1816W. Smith in J. Phillips Mem. (1844) 82 The surface of this rock..is very narrow and *interlayered with clay.
1595Daniel Civ. Wars iv. xxxiv, Yet now in this so happie a meane while And *interlightning times thy vertues wrought.
1933Bulletin (Sydney) 22 Nov. 28/1 ‘*Inter-lotting’, a practice gratuitously rendered by woolbrokers, consists in selecting a number of what would be star lots, and bracketing them into one big lot to sell as such.
1878Lawrence tr. Cotta's Rocks Class. 379 Subordinate *interlying beds of limestone. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases xxxi. 481 The comparatively smooth-sided and deep interlying sulci permitting limited movement.
1640H. Grimston in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 122 There is scarce any..Complaint..wherein we do not find him *intermentioned, and as it were twisted into it.
1598Yong Diana 86 A faire broade court..*interpaued all ouer with Lozanges of Allablaster and blacke Marble.
1832[R. Cuttermole] Beckett 175 See it burst..Midst *interpealing thunders.
1864Webster, *Interreceive, to receive between or within.
1875Ure's Dict. Arts III. 368 It is ruled over in squares, each of about twelve inches. These are again *interruled with small squares.
1609Daniel Civ. Wars viii. lxvii, This barrier..*inter-set, to keepe his forwardnes Backe.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 17 b/2 The little compressione must be *intersituated betweene the stitches.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 65 By some *inter-smilings, and casting of his eyes.
1889Pall Mall G. 25 Apr. 7/2 Boots *intersoled with brown paper.
a1658Cleveland Wks. (1687) 248 Where never prying Sun..Could..*intersqueeze a Ray.
1850Neale Med. Hymns (1867) 60 'Tis *intertinged with golden specks.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. ix. 20 Spungy and boggy grounds must be *intertraced..with Trenches of some eighteene inches breadth.
1881Blackmore Christowell (1882) II. iii. 36 The windings of the great hills, as they *interwend each other.
1762Gentl. Mag. 185 [He] hems and *interwhistles (hearts of oak).
1818J. Mill Brit. India (1858) I. 347 His gloss or commentary, *interworded with the text.
b. Denoting ‘Between or among themselves or one another; with each other; mutually, reciprocally, alternately (in a vbl. n., mutual, reciprocal), together’: as in interaccuse, inter-arch, inter-assure, inter-balance, inter-bring, inter-charge, inter-chase, inter-chequer, inter-circulate, inter-clash, inter-clasp, inter-crystallize, inter-debate, † inter-devour, inter-grapple, inter-indicate, inter-influence (vbl. n. inter-influencing), inter-jangle, inter-justle, inter-lend, inter-loop, inter-mason, inter-mat, inter-match, inter-maze, inter-meet, inter-melt, inter-minister, inter-net, inter-oscillate, inter-pervade, inter-pledge, inter-plight, inter-pour, inter-quarrel, inter-rime, inter-salute, inter-shade, inter-shift, inter-strive, inter-talk, inter-thread, inter-tie, inter-vary, inter-wed, inter-weld, inter-wish, inter-worry, inter-wrap; also intermingle, -marry, -weave, etc. With a trans. verb, inter- sometimes = ‘each other reciprocally’ as obj., the resulting verb thus becoming intr.; as interchase to chase each other, inter-choke, inter-clasp, inter-confound, † inter-enjoy, inter-touch: also interdespise, etc.
These appear in 16th c.; see intersalute in 1506, inter-justle in 1591. De Quincey (Logic Pol. Econ., 1844, 18 note) says: ‘The late Mr. Coleridge suggested, and by his own example sanctioned, the use of the preposition inter for expressing cases of reciprocal action, or, in his language, of interaction. Thus the verb interpenetrate, when predicated of the substances A and B, implied that by an equal action and reaction, each penetrated the other..But, even as a justifiable English usage, it may be found occasionally in Shakespeare, and much more frequently in Daniel, a writer of the same age’. The stress is on the radical element.
1610Donne Pseudo-M. viii. 236 The same falshoods, of which they *inter-accuse one another.
1875H. James R. Hudson ii. 63 The great Northhampton elms *interarched far above.
a1631Donne Poems (1633) 194 But we by a love, so much refin'd..*Inter-assured of the mind, Care lesse, eyes, lips, hands to miss.
1867Contemp. Rev. VI. 13 The complexities of its *interbalanced forces.
1613Donne Eclogue 26 Dec., Poems (1633) 131 Blest payre of Swans, oh may you *interbring Daily new joyes, and never sing.
1610― Pseudo-M. vii. 214 The maine point, with which we *intercharge one another.
a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 239 Retirement and Converse may *inter⁓chase.
1666J. Smith Old Age (1752) 192 The innumerable branches of the veins and arteries and their several wonderful *interchasings.
1660N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania i. (1682) 4 *Intercheckered like great beds of flowers and fresh grass-plats in a large Garden.
1622Sir W. Alexander in Sidney Arcadia iii. 332 Pyrocles..not able to abide the *interchoaking of such extremities.
1805W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XX. 512 Two nations whose literature *inter⁓circulates.
1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 346 Pouring down their waters in swirling, intermingling, *interclashing currents.
1868G. Stephens Runic Mon. I. 185 *Interclasping rings riveted within each other.
1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Quaker's Meet., ‘Boreas, and Cesias, and Argestes loud’..with their *interconfounding uproars.
1879Rutley Study Rocks x. 91 These..commonly occur side by side or *inter⁓crystallised.
1598I. D. tr. Le Roy's Aristotle's Pol. 175 Which question is *interdebated pro & contra, affirmatiuely and negatiuely.
1603Florio Montaigne ii. xii. (1632) 314 Without them, men would *enterdevour one another.
1898Zangwill Dreamers Ghetto xv. 459 Old sea-fights with *inter⁓grappling galleys.
1860W. J. C. Muir Pagan or Christian? 6 Civilization and Architecture approximately *inter-indicate one the other.
1921E. Sapir Lang. viii. 184 In many such cases it is perfectly clear that there could have been no dialectic *interinfluencing. 1961L. F. Brosnahan Sounds of Lang. x. 215 Genetic and linguistic interinfluencing of such groups favours the reverse trend.
1599Daniel Musoph. xxxvii, The diuers disagreeing Cords Of *inter-iangling Ignorance.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. i. 359 Th' *inter-justling of each others forces.
1968Listener 5 Sept. 319/2 Two of the very few important libraries which do not ‘*inter-lend’ are those of Oxford and Cambridge.
1891M. M. Dowie Girl in Karp. 224 The regular *interlooping of that soft even wool.
1883Harper's Mag. Apr. 698/2 Curiously *intermasoned were the stone and brick work.
1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 414 Whether the roots of corn be not so *intermatted with it, that he shall pluck up both together.
1677R. Cary Chronol. ii. i. i. xiv. 127 The several *Intermatchings..that were betwixt the two Neighbour Kingdoms.
1686tr. Heliodorus' æthiop. Advent. i. (1753) 7 The great quantity of reed and cane..stands before them as their bulwark, and therein they have cut out so many ways, *intermazed one within another.
a1577Gascoigne Dan Bartholomew, Upon her cheekes the lillie and the rose, Did *intermeet wyth equall change of hew.
1879G. Meredith Egoist v. (1889) 37 Where the gentle dints were faintly *intermelting even during quietness.
1883A. S. Herschel in Nature XXVII. 458/2 The marvellous maze of *internetted motions.
1842De Quincey Philos. Herodotus Wks. 1862 VIII. 178 Afterwards..it *inter-oscillated with the Roman stadium.
1863Draper Intell. Devel. Europe vi. (1865) 137 The Stoics conclude that the soul is mere warm breath, and that it and the body mutually *interpervade one another.
1651Davenant Gondibert i. v. 63 We *interpledg, and bind each others heart.
1880Lanier Poems, Crystal 27 To..*inter⁓plight Your geniuses with our mortalities.
1862T. Archer Let. in J. Macfarlane Mem. ix. (1867) 254 Oh for half an hour with you to *interpour mind and heart.
1820Keats Hyper. ii. 141 At war, at peace, or *inter-quarrelling.
1881Athenæum 20 Aug. 229/2 The Italian rispetto consists of a stanza of *interrhyming lines ranging from six to ten in number.
1506in Mem. Hen. VII (Rolls) 286 They *inter⁓saluted the one the other and departed.
1897Daily News 21 Sept. 2/3 Emotions of rejoicing and resignation are subtly *intershaded.
1883G. Meredith Sonn. Shakspere i, Full of speech and *intershifting tales.
1606Daniel Queen's Arcadia i. i. 37 Montanus and Acrysius *interstriue How farre their seuerall Sheep-walkes should extend.
1640Herrick Hesper., Mrs. Eliz. Wheeler, Amongst the myrtles as I walked, Love and my sighs thus *intertalked.
1877Blackie Wise Men 113 A complex web, where thread Still crosses thread, an *interthreaded maze.
1633J. Done Hist. Septuagint 49 A Girdle of Flowers, and Tussies of all Fruits, so *inter-tyed and following together so well.
a1631Donne Poems (1633) 12 They *intertouched as they did passe.
1864Webster, *Intervary, to alter or vary between; to change.
1818J. Brown Psyche 76 First cousins..Are consequently always reckon'd Freer to *interwed than second.
a1859De Quincey On the Mythus Posth. Wks. 1891 I. 44 Lacunæ arising in these *interwelded stories.
a1631Donne Poems (1633) 232 (The curse) What Tyrans and their subjects *interwish..all ill, which all Prophets, or Poets spake.
1678R. L'Estrange Seneca's Mor. (1685) 407 What a shame is it for Men to *Enterworry one another.
1871Proctor Light Sc. 7 The folds of the curtain *interwrapping and forming a series of graceful curves.
2. Prefixed in adjectival relation to substantives, or in adverbial relation to adjectives.
a. With ns. of action or condition, denoting ‘Performed or subsisting between things or persons, esp. between each other, mutual, reciprocal’; with adjs., ‘mutually, reciprocally’: as in inter-absorption, inter-acquaintanceship, inter-affiliation, inter-agreement, inter-association, inter-availability, inter-behaviour, inter-celebration, inter-chaff, inter-circulation, inter-citizenship, inter-civilization, inter-cohesion, inter-colonization, inter-combat, inter-combination, inter-comparison, inter-complexity, inter-contradiction, inter-crystallization, inter-culture, inter-differentiation, inter-dispensation, inter-entanglement, inter-federation, inter-fertility, inter-gesture, inter-gossip, inter-habitation, inter-incorporation, inter-independence, inter-influence, inter-judgement, inter-laudation, inter-match, inter-mobility, inter-modification, inter-mutation, inter-pressure, inter-racialism, inter-repulsion, inter-responsibility, inter-reticulation, inter-right, inter-sale, inter-sterility, inter-subsistence, inter-substitutability, inter-substitution, inter-tesselation, inter-wish; inter-available, inter-behavioural, inter-comparable, inter-complimentary, inter-contradictory, inter-fertile, inter-hostile, inter-inhibitive, inter-measurable, inter-proportional, inter-repellent, inter-responsive, inter-sterile, inter-substitutable, inter-visible adjs.
These go back to 16th c.: see inter-affair (1563), intermarriage (1579). The main stress is on the radical element.
1872Daily News 29 July, There will be at first a common lack of *inter-acquaintanceship.
1887National Rev. Mar. 59 As to the expediency of their *inter-affiliation [i.e. of Labour Registries].
1849H. Mayo Truths Pop. Superst. ii. 34 All of these..instances agree in another important respect; which..*inter-agreement separates them as a class from death-trance.
Ibid. v. 77 An endless current of images..suggested..by their own *inter-associations. 1894Harper's Mag. Mar. 554 This..interassociation and interdependence of the flower and the insect.
1920Glasgow Herald 1 July 6 The issue of a circular cancelling the *inter-availability of practically all railway tickets between Scotland and England. 1923Ibid. 27 Jan. 11 The deputation intends..to press for the inter-availability of these tickets on all systems. 1935Punch 21 Aug. 204/3 ‘Interavailability of Tickets between the G.W., L.M.S. and L. & N.E. Companies’.—G.W.R. Pamphlet.
1972Daily Tel. 26 Feb. 2/6 Tickets are *inter-available and British Rail fares will now reflect the London Transport increase.
1939Mind XLVIII. 111 Linguistic phenomena are forms of *inter-behaviour with stimulus objects. 1952W. J. H. Sprott Social Psychol. 1 By social situation is meant what might be called the ‘inter⁓behaviour’ of one human being with one or more other human beings.
1938J. R. Kantor in Jrnl. Philos. XXXV. 449 The *interbehavioral hypothesis signifies that all human phenomena..consist of the concrete interbehavior of specific individuals with things. 1939Mind XLVIII. 111 The inter-behavioural hypothesis encourages us properly to evaluate every form of scientific and logical work.
1921Spectator 26 Mar. 391/2, I should be glad to see inter-communion, but not, under present circumstances, *inter-celebration. 1969Daily Tel. 30 May 20/6 For inter-celebration of services there must be a solution of the problems over the ministry which the proposals evaded.
1886Harper's Mag. Dec. 32 In the way of *interchaff we rustics could hold a good front.
c1814Coleridge Rem. (1836) III. 73 By an eternal περιχώρησις or mysterious *intercirculation.
1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. VI. 33 A recommendation that *inter-citizenship should be confined to the white man.
1798W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXVI. 561 Institutions which have favoured the *inter⁓civilization of nations.
1841De Quincey Homer & Homeridæ Wks. 1857 VI. 333 That sort of natural *intercohesion.
1827G. Higgins Celtic Druids 92 The..intermixture or *inter⁓colonization which may have taken place between the two countries.
1609Daniel Civ. Wars i. lii, They both in order of the field appear,..And at the point of *intercombate were.
1866Athenæum 23 July 838/1 Changes..made by the *intercombination, in varying proportions, of a few proximate elements.
1883C. Wragge in Nature (1884) 4 Feb. 326/2 They [ozone papers] would give results more *inter⁓comparable, if uniformly exposed.
1861Max Müller Sc. Lang. Ser. i. v. (1864) 174 By comparative grammar; that is to say, by an *intercomparison of the grammatical forms of language.
1847De Quincey Sp. Mil. Nun xx. Wks. 1863 III. 62 note, After these *intercomplexities had arisen between all complications and interweavings of descent.
1836Fraser's Mag. XIII. 78 [They] then accomplished the following *intercomplimentary canticle.
1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 439 You would stun him with the seeming *inter⁓contradiction of some, and utter pointlessness of the rest.
1819W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XLVII. 389 There are many *intercontradictory articles among the thirty-nine.
1879Rutley Study Rocks x. 90 The *intercrystallisation which probably gives rise to the compound-specific character of some felspars.
1881Scribner's Mag. Aug. 542 Blending the politics..art and letters of the several European countries..in proportion to the growth of travel and *interculture.
1647J. Saltmarsh Spark. Glory (1847) 190 All that pure administration of Ordinances and Gifts..is but a middle or *interdispensation betwixt God and his.
1865Masson Rec. Brit. Philos. 226 Their present *inter-entanglement.
1885Froude Oceana xiii. (1886) 224 *Interfederation of the Australian States..may, and perhaps will, be raised as a hustings cry in England.
1916Mem. N.Y. Bot. Garden VI. 352 Two seedling varieties derived from the same variety may be *inter-fertile to some degree. 1971J. Z. Young Introd. Study Man xxvii. 387 Leopard frogs (Rana pipiens) from the north and south of the United States are only partially interfertile when they are crossed.
1924Genetics IX. 36 The *inter-fertility relationships of these 27 classes are indicated. 1953Jrnl. Gen. Microbiol. VIII. 72 Some forty strains of Bact. coli..which either out-cross with K-12 mutants or show inter-fertility.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 284 By secret glances and mutuall *intergestures.
1836Blackw. Mag. XXXIX. 149 note, Fabricated upon..the *intergossip of ambassadors.
1817G. S. Faber Eight Dissert. ii. v. (1845) I. 191 He dwelt visibly among the Apostle's countrymen..the verb, which he employs to describe this *interhabitation.
1890Scribner's Mag. Jan. 29/2 *Interhostile points of view.
1893Fairbairn Christ in Mod. Theol. ii. i. i. 306 This *inter-incorporation of the Person with the office and of the office with the Person.
Ibid. ii. ii. 414 The complete separation or *inter-independence of God and the world.
1948Q. Rev. Apr. 180 The cant *inter-influence among all English-speaking countries has been considerable. 1959C. L. Wrenn Word & Symbol (1967) 17 Oghams and Runes came into use at about the same period..and the possibility of their mutual relationship and inter-influence has continued to tease the brains of scholars. 1960Partridge Charm of Words i. 23 This interinfluence is unavoidable.
1883H. Maudsley Body & Will iii. iii. 267 An impairment of the *interinhibitive functions.
1879G. Meredith Egoist xxxiii. (1889) 325 They had so knit themselves together with the pelting of their *interlaudation.
1652C. B. Stapylton Herodian xiv. 116 If once this Royall *Intermatch were done,..The World might Govern'd be betwixt them twain.
a1866J. Grote Exam. Util. Philos. xviii. (1870) 295 *Inter⁓measurable qualities of happiness.
1864Webster s.v., The *intermobility of the particles of matter.
1844De Quincey Logic Pol. Econ. 140 From the balance or *intermodification between the two.
1877Haldeman Etymol. 17 (Cent.) When [mutation] occurs between vowels we may term it *intermutation.
1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. iv. iii. (1872) I. 294 Intolerable *interpressure and consequent battle.
1880E. Cleminshaw Wurtz' Atom. The. 3 The numbers..are *interproportional for all kinds of combinations.
1931Amer. Speech VII. 78 A writer in the Congregationalist says ‘*Interracialism, like love, service, and brotherhood, is a splendid word which has been cheapened by overuse.’ How many acquaintances have you whose diction suffers from over-use of the word interracialism?
1844De Quincey Logic Pol. Econ. i. §2. 18 They are not, to borrow a word from Coleridge, *inter-repellent ideas.
1851― Ld. Carlisle on Pope Wks. 1863 XII. 31 note, No doctoring..could disguise their essential *inter-repulsion.
1873Contemp. Rev. XXII. 92 The.. continuous *inter-responsibility of the mental and bodily life.
1906Macm. Mag. Apr. 434 The mystic net-work, *inter-responsive as a delicate system of nerves. 1955R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (ed. 3) ii. 30 It is a thing..as sensitively inter⁓connected and inter-responsive, as the branches of a tree.
1852Dana Crust. i. 143 Gradations and *inter-reticulations among groups.
a1668Sir W. Waller Div. Medit. (1839) 25 Thou art in a common world, wherein every person hath an *inter-right with thee.
1894Daily News 21 Mar. 2/7 There was..a power of *intersale, within certain limits, between the companies that took water from the Thames.
1916Mem. N.Y. Bot. Garden VI. 352 It was found that at least three varieties are strongly *inter-sterile. 1956Nature 21 Jan. 142/1 The mating type of the hybrid shows no change, that is, the hybrid males remain intersterile with O females, as in the original strain H.
1899Q. Rev. Oct. 419 The *intersterility test has broken down.
1872H. Macmillan True Vine iii. 94 The inseparable *intersubsistence between Christ and His people.
1954I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic vii. 224 Of the list of elementary valid argument forms..the last ten were equivalences whose *intersubstitutability was assumed. 1957P. Geach Mental Acts 90 We cannot define synonymy as a supreme degree of equivalence, intersubstitutability salva veritate in all contexts.
1954I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic iii. 44 The list contains all those logical equivalences which are certified as *intersubstitutable. 1957P. Geach Mental Acts 101 In an ‘extensional’ logic..predicates or relative terms would be freely intersubstitutable provided that they held good of the same objects.
1886Bible Soc. Rec. (N.Y.) Oct. 147 The *inter⁓substitution of the kindred mutes, b for p, and p for b.
1847De Quincey Protestantism Wks. 1862 VII. 113 The coherencies, tendencies, and *intertesselations (to use a learned word) of the whole.
1856Webster, *Intervisible,..mutually visible, or able to be seen the one from the other;—said of stations.
1668Davenant Epithal. xii, Those *inter⁓wishes you did make In dream.
b. With ns. (chiefly concrete), denoting ‘Situated or occurring between things, or in the midst of something; intermediate, intervening’: as in intercalm (an interval of calm), inter-canal (a canal forming a connexion between two others), inter-chapter (an intermediate chapter), inter-division, † inter-light (1624), inter-limitation, † inter-mask, inter-piece, inter-scene, inter-thing, inter-while; also intermean, interspace, etc.
In these the main stress is now on inter-.
1822Beddoes Brides' Trag. iii. iii, The roar has ceased: the hush of *intercalm Numbs with its leaden finger Echo's lips.
1887Sollas in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 413/2 These canals are the ‘*intercanals’ of Haeckel, now generally known by their older name of incurrent canals.
1834Southey Doctor I. 105, I will call them *Interchapters. 1882Saintsbury Short Hist. Fr. Lit. Pref. 8 Notes or interchapters have been inserted between the several books.
1710Norris Chr. Prud. iii. 106 Many other *inter-divisions between these.
1624Heywood Gunaik. viii. 370 Hee affirmed the Galaxia..to be a meere reflex of the Sunne, and no *inter-light arising from the Starres.
1848Blackw. Mag. LXIV. 512 Shore is exactly the *interlimitation of land and sea.
1678(title) The Traitor to Himself, or Man's Heart his Greatest Enemy, a Moral Interlude..with *Intermaskes of Interpretation at the close of each several Act.
1853E. S. Sheppard Ch. Auchester I. 334 The chorale so grave and powerful, with its *interpieces so light and florid.
1888Amer. Jrnl. Philol. Oct. 348 Epirrhemation..then follows an *inter⁓scene.
a1657R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 261, I have suffered such an amphibious *interthing betwixt health and sicknesse, as it has pos'd me to christen it.
1891V. C. Cotes 2 Girls on Barge 136 A single Sunday of home comfort for her cramped wanderings in the *interwhile.
c. With adjs. as intermiddle.
II. In prepositional relation to the n. expressed or implied in the second element.
3. Prefixed to ns., forming ns., with the senses
a. ‘Space, distance, or part between{ddd}’, esp. in architectural terms, after L. intercolumnium intercolumn, as inter-dentil, inter-glyph, inter-joist, inter-modillion, inter-mutule, inter-quarter, inter-spiral; also inter-world;
b. ‘Period or interval of time between’, in words formed on the analogy of interregnum, as inter-papacy, inter-parliament. See also interking, interpilaster.
The stress is on the radical part, but with a monosyllable tends to rest on inter-.
1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. Gloss. 586 *Inter-dentils, the space between dentils.
1875Encycl. Brit. II. 404/1 The *interglyphs are each one-seventh of the whole tablet or triglyph.
1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. Gloss. 586 *Inter-joist, the space between joists.
1723Chambers tr. Le Clerc's Treat. Archit. I. 94 The Corinthian *Inter-modillions consist of 41 Minutes and a quarter.
c1863Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) III. 149/1 The temple to Ceres at Pœstum has no mutules or triglyphs. The example at Albano has no *intermutules. 1901R. Sturgis Dict. Archit., Intermutule, the space between two mutules, as in an architrave.
1687S. Hill Cath. Balance 63 They have had not only very many, but also..very long *Interpapacies.
1678Marvell Growth Popery 22 During this *Inter-Parliament..five Judges places either fell, or were made vacant.
1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. Gloss. 586 *Inter-quarter, the space between two quarters.
1831Fraser's Mag. IV. 281 The size and shape of the eye of the volute..the greater or lesser depth of the *interspirals.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 781 Imagining, that they are run hither..out of..other worlds; or imaginarie *inter-worlds [L. inter⁓mundia, Gr. µετακόσµια] and spaces betweene.
4. Prefixed to adjs. (originally, and most frequently, of Latin origin), in prepositional relation to the n. implied (as inter-acinous, ‘that is inter acinos, between the acini’: cf. anti- 3, infra- 1), or sometimes to a phrase consisting of the adj. + a n. (as inter-accessory ‘between accessory processes’).
For the etymology of the second element, see the simple words accessory, acinous, etc. Ancient Latin had only a very few examples of this formation, as intermūrālis, interamnus, interdigitālis, interlūnis, intermēstris; but their number in modern times, chiefly since 1600, and esp. since 1800, is very great, and they are formed freely when needed. Logically they are composed of inter + L. n. stem + adj. suffix; but, as the adj. suffix is the same that is used in forming an adj. from the simple word (e.g. nation-al, inter-nation-al, collegi-ate, inter-collegi-ate), they have the form of being composed of inter + adj., and in some later formations, as interhuman, intercapillary, interaccessory, intermolar, this is actually their structure. The main stress is on the radical part.
a. Denoting ‘Situated, placed, or occurring locally, between or among (what is implied in the second element)’: in modern scientific and other terms (chiefly of Anatomy and Zoology), as interantennal, inter-antennary (between the antennæ), inter-apophysial, inter-capillary, inter-cavernous, inter-consonantal, inter-corallite (see corallite 2), inter-corpuscular, inter-coxal, (see coxa 2), inter-cuspidal, inter-cystic, inter-electronic, inter-epimeral, inter-fibrillar (inter-ary), inter-fibrous, inter-filamentar, inter-follicular, inter-ligamentary (-ous), inter-mandibular, inter-marginal, inter-membranous, inter-mesenterial (-ic), inter-micellar, inter-molar, inter-morainic, inter-muscular, inter-nebular, inter-papillary, inter-peduncular, inter-spheral, inter-spicular, inter-staminal, inter-sternal, inter-systematical, inter-tentacular, inter-trabecular, inter-ureteral, inter-vesicular, inter-villous adjs. See also interaccessory, interacinous, etc. in 6; interalveolar, -articular, -cellular, etc., among the main words.
1852Dana Crust. i. 283 The six *interantennary front teeth.
1887Syd. Soc. Lex., *Interapophysial, situated between apophyses.
1847–9Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 115/2 The red corpuscles..exude thence into the *intercapillary texture.
1890Webster, *Inter-cavernous. 1968Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. xxi. 9/1 The two cavernous sinuses intercommunicate across the midline by means of the anterior and posterior intercavernous sinuses.
1931Amer. Speech VII. 19 His *inter-consonantal u is perhaps Southern.
1839–47Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 857/1 Developed in the *inter⁓corpuscular tissue.
1871Herschel Outl. Astron. (ed. 11) 497 Every *intercuspidal arc.
1964J. W. Linnett Electronic Struct. Molecules i. 12 In chromium..the six electrons are spread among the five 3d and one 4s orbital to reduce the effect of *inter-electronic repulsion.
1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. vi. 309 By reason of the calcification of the *inter⁓epimeral and intersternal membranes.
1883MacAlister tr. Zeigler's Pathol. Anat. I. §143 A swollen and semi-liquid condition of the *interfibrillar substance.
1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 191 A peculiar form of *interfibrillary degeneration of the muscles of the tongue.
1882J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XIV. 384/1 Pressing the combined lime and *interfibrous matter out of the tissue.
1883Ray Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 689/1 Solid permanent *inter-filamentar junctions.
1888Syd. Soc. Lex., *Inter⁓follicular, situated between follicles. 1968J. H. Burn Lect. Notes Pharmacol. (ed. 9) 88 Thyrocalcitonin is a hormone formed in the interfollicular cells of the thyroid gland.
1872Cohen Dis. Throat 56 An *inter-ligamentous rima corresponding to the length of the cords.
1872Humphrey Myology 43 *Intermandibular [muscles]..passing transversely..from one side of the lower jaw to the other beneath it.
1858Phil. Trans. R. Soc. CXLVIII. 280 *Inter⁓marginal cavities [of sponges]. 1900E. R. Lankester Treat. Zool. III. xiv. 246 In some genera intermarginal plates occur between these two series. 1907J. H. Parsons Dis. Eye x. 171 The palpebral conjunctiva is said to commence at the anterior margin of the edge of the lid, but from this point to the posterior margin of the edge (the intermarginal strip) and for about 2 mm beyond (to the sulcus subtarsalis) there is a transitional zone.
1887G. C. Bourne in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sc. Aug. 34 The *intermesenterial chambers or entocœles.
1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. iii. 153 The *intermesenteric chambers in the Actinozoon.
1937Chem. Abstr. XXXI. 5155 The diam. of the *inter⁓micellar spaces decreases considerably on shrinkage. 1962J. T. Marsh Self-Smoothing Fabrics xv. 257 They..concluded that the resin must be in the inter-micellar spaces of the cellulose.
1839–47Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 387/1 The *intermolar eminence of the tongue in certain Rodents.
1894J. Geikie Gt. Ice Age (ed. 3) xxxv. 593 The *inter-morainic lakes which occupy similar positions at the base of the Alps in North Italy. 1957G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 90 A few inter⁓morainic bogs still exist but the lakes in general have disappeared.
1929J. H. Jeans Universe around Us ii. 142 The vast stretches of *internebular space. 1957Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. XVI. 22 Calculations on the feasibility of long-range interstellar travel—including internebular journeys.
1887Syd. Soc. Lex., *Interpapillary. 1898J. Hutchinson Archives Surg. IX. 317 The interpapillary processes of the epithelium.
1839–47Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 673/1 The depression..which separates them is the..*interpeduncular space. 1881Mivart Cat 271 They issue from the cerebral surface in the interpeduncular space between the crura and cerebri.
1883Nature 8 Feb. 350/1 As the particles of the spheres decrease in heat momentum, those of *interspheral space increase.
1870Hooker Stud. Flora 68 Disk obscure or of *interstaminal glands. 1877*Intersternal [see interepimeral].
1783Sir W. Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXIII. 276 The probability of many stars being..solitary, or, if I may use the expression, *intersystematical.
1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 236 A ciliated *intertentacular tube.
1879Rutley Study Rocks xi. 192 An irregular network of fibrous *intervesicular matter.
1890Billings Med. Dict. I. 710/2 *Intervillous lacunæ, irregular vascular spaces connected with the maternal blood-vessels, surrounding the fœtal villi in the placenta. 1962Gray's Anat. (ed. 33) 115 In the early stages of placental development the blood in the foetal vessels is separated from the maternal blood in the intervillous space.
b. Denoting ‘Intervening or happening in the time or period between{ddd}’: as in inter-artistic, inter-conciliary, inter-equinoctial, inter-menstrual, inter-paroxysmal, inter-sessional, inter-testamental adjs. See also interadventual, intermealary in 6; and cf. 5 b.
1883Eng. Illustr. Mag. Nov. 89/2 The late Georgian or early Victorian age which might fairly be designated..the *inter-artistic period.
1620Brent tr. Sarpi's Hist. Council Trent (1676) 545 To write..*interconciliary times by way of Annals.
a1795F. Balfour in Asiat. Res. (W. 1828), Spring and autumn I have denominated equinoctial periods. Summer and winter I have called *inter-equinoctial intervals.
1853E. S. Sheppard Ch. Auchester III. 265 The Spirit moving upon the face of the waters before the *intermomentary light.
1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxvii. (1856) 226 The *inter-paroxysmal yell. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 162 The interparoxysmal periods of chronic gout.
1956Jrnl. Theol. Stud. VII. 292 Professor Stauffer..is apt to find in the N.T. references to lost *intertestamental literature [etc.]. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Dec. 1516/2 Dr Vermes begins by ransacking the inter-testamental and rabbinic literatures (especially the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Targumim and the Palestinian Talmud).
c. Denoting ‘Subsisting, carried on, taking place, or forming a communication, between{ddd}’; hence, sometimes, ‘Belonging in common to, or composed of elements derived from, different things (of the kind indicated by the second element)’: as in inter-African, inter-American, inter-cameral, inter-Caribbean, inter-clerical (between clergymen), inter-coastal, inter-collegiate, inter-confessional, inter-cultural, inter-denominational, inter-departmental, inter-dialectal, inter-ecclesiastical, inter-ethnic, inter-generational, inter-governmental, inter-human, inter-parliamentary, inter-perceptual, inter-professional, inter-racial (so inter-racially adv.), inter-regimental, inter-regional, inter-religional, inter-religious, inter-territorial adjs. See also intercivic, etc., in 6, and intercontinental, etc., among the main words. The prototype of this class was international (Bentham, 1780).
1956Nature 25 Feb. 366/2 An *Inter-African Committee for Social Sciences. 1960Guardian 6 Oct. 10/6 An expression of inter-African solidarity. 1973Black World May 61/2 Those whom the truth would incriminate hid behind the made-in-Hilton Hotel masks of amnesty, reconciliation and inter-African dialogue.
1938Sun (Baltimore) 5 Dec. 2/5 In this and in other matters of *inter-American interest, I anticipate working with the representatives of Ecuador. 1961Ann. Reg. 1960 532 The Inter-American system is incompatible with any form of totalitarianism. 1964Illustr. London News 18 Jan. 81 President Johnson..sent his Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs..to the Canal Zone. 1972Buenos Aires Herald 4 Feb. 7/1 Bruno Quijano met yesterday with Charles Meyer, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs. 1973Sunday Advocate-News (Barbados) 25 Feb. 13/7 Barbados strongly opposes any case of racial discrimination..and for this reason opposes the admission of Portugal in the Inter American system.
1929Times 29 Oct. 16/1 Nobody believes that the question will..go to the *intercameral conference before the Special Session ends. 1935Economist 13 July 62/2 The Public Utility Holding Company Bill..has been returned to the Senate, which has sent it to an inter-cameral conference.
1971Jamaican Weekly Gleaner 10 Nov. 5/5 Mr. Arnold Foote..lauded the function as a ‘gesture of *inter-Caribbean friendship’. 1973Caribbean Contact Jan. 6/3, I believe that this magazine would help bridge the gap between Caribbean peoples and so foster inter-Caribbean harmony.
1868Examiner 1 Feb. 65 A breach of *inter-clerical amity.
1927Contemp. Rev. Oct. 493 Already in *inter⁓coastal traffic New York is surpassed. 1969Jane's Freight Containers 1968–69 57/2 Intercoastal Services via the Port of New York.
1884Durham Univ. Jrnl. 29 Mar. 15 The *Inter⁓collegiate [Boat-] Race. 1900G. C. Brodrick Mem. & Impress. 357 Another change..was the inroad made upon the College system by the introduction of intercollegiate lecturing.
1892Cheyne Founders O.T. Crit. Pref. (1893) 9 Sound Biblical criticism is neither German nor English, neither Lutheran, nor Anglican, nor Presbyterian, but international and *interconfessional.
1937Theology XXXV. 347 Our present consideration of *intercultural contacts. 1955Sci. Amer. Apr. 84/2 In the interest of intercultural understanding various U.S. Government agencies have hired anthropologists. 1972Ibid. Nov. 82/1 If pictorial recognition is universal, do pictures offer us a lingua franca for intercultural communication?
1893Chicago Advance 13 July, An increase in international and *interdenominational fellowship. 1894Daily News 7 Nov. 8/7 The establishment of friendly workers' areas under the management of Interdenominational Committees.
1959M. Schlauch Eng. Lang. in Mod. Times i. 28 An *inter-dialectal survey.
1920Q. Register Nov. 339 A great moment of international and *inter-ecclesiastical opportunity.
1959H. Wolff in Anthropol. Ling. Mar. 34 (title) Intelligibility and *inter⁓ethnic attitudes. 1971Sunday Nation (Nairobi) 11 Apr. 13/3 There was one section of the population in Uganda, inter-ethnic in composition, which was not using English as the primary qualification for professional ascent. This section was the armed forces of Uganda.
1964S. Lieberson in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 551 We find *intergenerational linguistic unity of nationality groups is less than the unity within the immigrant groups themselves. 1968Listener 29 Feb. 259/1 The intergenerational differences amount to a mutation. 1971Black Scholar June 29/2 The black revolution will then become an intergenerational revolution.
1927Glasgow Herald 20 Jan. 8 When it came to negotiation, agreement could not be obtained by *inter-Governmental intervention. 1946J. S. Huxley Unesco ii. 48 This important group of human activities..has never previously been adequately dealt with by any inter-governmental organisation. 1969Jane's Freight Containers 1968–69 142/3 Some of the problems requiring action at the inter-governmental level..have been indicated above. 1973Times 21 May 4/7 The inter-governmental convention establishing the European University Institute was signed by the six founding members of the Community in April, 1972.
1881Standard 21 May 3/4 An account..of a..case of *inter-human osseous transplantation.
1892Times (weekly ed.) 2 Sept. 5/2 The *Interparliamentary Conference [shall] be requested to influence the insertion of arbitration clauses in all international treaties. 1898Times 16 Dec. 5/7 About a couple of years ago an inter-Parliamentary peace conference on disarmament was held at Budapest.
1932W. T. Stace Theory of Knowledge & Existence vii. 160 What it is or is not during *inter-perceptual periods makes no difference to me as a practical person. 1934Mind XLIII. 151 Why must we believe that causation continues to operate during inter-perceptual intervals?
1960Times 15 Feb. 11/7 The third *Interprofessional Conference in March will examine some cardinal moral issues. 1971Optometry Today (Amer. Optometric Assoc.) 13 Naturally, interprofessional referrals are a two-way street.
1888Scot. Leader 20 Aug. 5 *Interracial conflict in Louisiana. Twenty niggers slain. 1892Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker viii. 123 Chinatown..drew and held me; I could never have enough of its ambiguous, interracial atmosphere. 1905Athenæum 30 Sept. 430/1 Inter-racial cordiality. 1953E. H. Brookes S. Afr. in Changing World v. 105 Thus the services of Americans to South Africa in the interracial field are spanned across a century. 1960Spectator 22 July 128 There is a large, brand-new ‘inter-racial’ hotel. 1968Blues Unlimited Dec. 12 The local interracial Dirty Blues Band. 1972Publishers Weekly 7 Feb. 37 (Advt.), Grace Halsell..describes what happens to interracial couples when they are joined in a love affair or marriage.
1964Punch 26 Aug. 290/1 Anger..fomented internally and directed *inter-racially. 1972Publishers Weekly 14 Aug. 40/2 He hustled a basketball scholarship, lost it for dating interracially.
1883Manch. Exam. 20 Nov. 5/4 The results of the *inter-regimental matches..the shooting exhibiting great improvement.
1945*Interregional [see expressway]. 1962H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. ii. 77 Gold was the essential commodity for interregional exchange in the Mediterranean context.
1894Forum (N.Y.) Sept. 61 *Inter⁓religious good-will is a manifest help to the study of comparative theology.
1888Philadelphia Ledger 4 Dec. (Cent.), An *inter-territorial convention of the north-western Territories. 1964Ann. Reg. 1963 102 Agreement..that joint authorities..would continue to provide services on an inter-territorial basis was reached. 1967Economist 17 June 1234/2 The main points of the treaty are: the establishment of an East African development bank; interterritorial tariffs on goods originating in one country and exported to another, [etc.].
d. Loosely used to denote ‘Situated, occurring, carried on, etc., between the parts or divisions of{ddd}’, and hence erroneously ‘within{ddd}’ (properly expressed by intra-): as in inter-asteroidal, -coccygeal, -cranial, -imperial, -mercurial, -parenchymal, -trinitarian: see 6.
5. a. Prefixed to ns., forming adjs., with the sense ‘Situated, distributed, occurring, carried on, plying, etc. between{ddd}’; usually of communication, commerce, athletic contests, or the like: as in inter-arrival, inter-bank(s), inter-borough, inter-bourse (between different stock-exchanges), inter-brigade (between brigades), inter-caste, inter-centre, inter-church, inter-city (also absol.), inter-class, inter-club, inter-company, inter-county, inter-dealer, inter-district, inter-electron, inter-empire, inter-faith, inter-family, inter-fibre, inter-hemisphere, inter-island, inter-library, inter-nucleon, inter-office, inter-particle, inter-party, inter-school, inter-species, inter-stream, inter-street, inter-team, inter-town, inter-trial, inter-union, inter-university (inter-'varsity), inter-valve, inter-village, inter-zone, etc., etc. See also inter-cell, interstate (a 1845 in U.S.). b. Rarely, in the same sense as 4 b: as in inter-epidemic, inter-whiff.
These are app. all of 19th c. or 20th c. origination, and may be formed at pleasure. For their form and analysis, see what is said under the analogous anti- prefix 4. The main stress is on the radical word; but, when this is a monosyllable, tends to shift to inter-.
1962J. Riordan Stochastic Service Syst. i. 3 For this, as for the Poisson, the intervals between demands (*inter⁓arrival intervals) are independent random variables. 1968P. A. P. Moran Introd. Probability Theory iii. 179 Much more complicated queueing systems with general inter⁓arrival and service time distributions are considered.
1907Daily Chron. 29 Sept. 9/2 The *Inter-Banks Team Race, in which sixteen banks in London were represented. 1966Economist 12 Nov. 718/2 The big broker in unsecured ‘interbank’ sterling deposits. 1973Daily Tel. 9 Feb. 21 Overnight money in the interbank market rose to a peak of 13 p.c. earlier this week.
1905Westm. Gaz. 8 Nov. 5/1 The officials of the *inter-borough railways. 1928Daily Express 19 May 9/5 The first inter-borough competition of its kind ever organised in London.
1893Daily News 29 June 2/5 *Interbourse securities are not perceptibly affected. 1898Westm. Gaz. 17 May 8/1 The shares are of {pstlg}4 each..for convenience of inter-bourse dealing.
1897Westm. Gaz. 16 July 7/2 An *inter-brigade competition by volunteer teams of sixteen.
1908New Reformer II. 62 It is a case of *inter-caste and inter-provincial marriage. 1925E. S. Jones Christ of Indian Road xiii. 243 We sat down to an intercaste dinner—a hundred high-caste Hindus, a hundred outcastes, a hundred Indian Christians, a few Mohammedans, and several of us of the West. 1964Ann. Reg. 1963 358 Among social measures which came into force were the banning of polygamy and permission for inter-caste marriages.
1946Nature 20 July 97/2 Each centimetre on the plotting-board of the apparatus corresponds with ‘the cone *intercentre distance’, that is, the distance between the centre of one foveal cone and that of its next-door neighbours. 1970New Scientist 31 Dec. 596 Saturation signalling involves a large volume of inter-centre communication.
1905Daily Chron. 22 Nov. 1/7 At an *inter-Church Conference in New York 17,000,000 Church members of all denominations were represented. 1926Brit. Weekly 22 July 327/1 Dr. Clark has toured the world to build this inter-church, international organisation.
1909Westm. Gaz. 3 June 14/1 In the first *inter-city match played between Edinburgh and Glasgow. 1940A. L. Albert Electr. Communication (ed. 2) vii. 174 Connections are made between the two exchanges by means of toll lines... In some locations this has been designated intercity service. 1955Railway Mag. May 334/1 The 9 a.m. ‘Inter-City’ from Paddington averaged 181/4 min. late at Snow Hill. 1968Daily Tel. 12 Nov. 26/7 A three-months' trial scheme..was introduced by British Railways on inter-city trains in September. 1970A. Dekker Divers Diamonds xxii. 145 The GPO intercity microwave link towers. 1972Guardian 13 Mar. 13/1 The expression ‘Inter-City’ was a British invention and its success is demonstrated by the adoption of the title in such countries as Germany, Japan, Holland, and now the United States, to describe express business trains. 1973Times 29 Oct. 14/8 On the inter-city to Sunderland I was one of the first people in the dining car.
1909Post-Intelligencer (Seattle) 18 Apr. 1/2 The *interclass crews and girls' crews work at other hours during the day. 1950T. H. Marshall Citizenship & Social Class i. iv. 57 A divided educational system, by promoting both intra-class similarity and inter-class difference, gave emphasis..to a criterion of social distance. 1971P. J. Keating Working Classes in Victorian Fiction iii. 71 A romance of corrupted character and inter-class love. 1972Listener 27 July 107/2 Venice was untouched by the inter-class antagonisms..that troubled the domestic peace of other states.
1890Daily News 3 Feb. 3/5 An *inter-club race.
1895Ibid. 30 Jan. 5/5 A set of rules..for governing inter-club and *inter-county matches.
1968N.Y. Times 19 Feb. 60 It appears to be technically feasible to use a central computer to record and report *interdealer quotations. 1970Washington Post 30 Sept. D 11/4 The following..are representative interdealer prices.
1964J. W. Linnett Electronic Struct. Molecules i. 11 Clearly, for the lowest energy state, it is advantageous to reduce *inter-electron repulsion as much as possible.
1896Chamberlain Sp. 8 June, The laws regulating *inter-Empire commerce.
1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 185 The longer duration of the *inter-epidemic periods since 1856.
1967Economist 6 May 574/2 It is joining with 39 other firms and an *interfaith group to provide 1,500 new jobs. 1970Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 37/1 An interfaith group which supports tough anti-obscenity laws. 1973Jewish Chron. 2 Feb. 13/5 The Israel Interfaith Committee.
1946Nature 10 Aug. 204/2 The successful production of hybrid plants from interspecific, intergeneric, and even *inter⁓family crosses has naturally led to investigation of the events which occur in some of the crosses which habitually fail. 1965J. E. Cross in English Studies Apr. 96 The provincial and interfamily strife..between..Deira and Bernicia.
1962J. T. Marsh Self-Smoothing Fabrics iv. 39 In a fabric with a high cover factor, i.e. a tightly woven material, the friction between fibres is apt to be high enough to restrict *inter-fibre movement.
1895C. Dixon in Fortn. Rev. Apr. 648 Migratory species [of birds] that are neither Inter-polar nor *Inter-hemisphere. Ibid. 653 Families and groups which I have ventured to describe as Interhemisphere..with a more or less dominant equatorial base, spreading both north and south.
1859Sandwich Islands 1 cent postage stamp, *Interisland Hawaiian Postage. Uku Leta. 1891Daily News 1 Jan. 5/5 To serve as an inter-island steamer in the South Seas.
1928J. A. McMillen (title) Selected articles on *interlibrary loans. 1938Times 1 Jan. 10/1 All England and Wales is now covered by schemes for the inter-library lending of books. 1968Language XLIV. 211 The publications..are available to any American library on inter-library loan.
1953Physical Rev. XCI. 1529/2 The meson theory, which predicts strong *internucleon interactions.
1934Webster, *Inter-office. 1938Times 29 Sept. 19/1 War Loan..was being quoted 95 middle in inter-office dealings. 1969New Yorker 20 Sept. 181/1 An interoffice memo cast in cablese. 1972Accountant 6 Apr. 456/1 On the sports side, it was hoped to revive the inter-office cricket tournament and play matches with other students' societies and the law students.
1946Nature 6 July 13/1 The resistance increased, indicating that the width of the *inter-particle contacts had diminished. 1953Physical Rev. XCI. 1527 The leading term..depends only on the interparticle distances. 1962W. B. Thompson Introd. Plasma Physics vii. 148 The simple theory presented here may be extended by including in a phenomenological way the effect of interparticle collisions.
1909Westm. Gaz. 8 Mar. 2/1 A break in the party seems inevitable. The issue of this *inter-party struggle will be one of great moment for South Africa. 1957C. Hunt Guide to Communist Jargon xxx. 103 He [sc. Marx] held that, under the capitalist system, parliaments were simply the instruments by means of which the bourgeoisie maintained its domination, and that inter-party conflicts within this framework had no real significance.
1895Westm. Gaz. 25 July 3/3 The encouragement of *inter⁓school matches.
1920Proc. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 1919 50 (heading) *Inter species pollination of plums. 1962Punch 14 Mar. 443/1 The possible consequences of inter⁓species communication between man and dolphin.
1902Webster Suppl., *Interstream a. (Phys. Geog.), between streams. 1968D. S. Simonett in R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 559 Many geomorphologists today use the term [sc. interfluve] for the interstream area to imply a discrete landscape or geomorphic unit.
1895Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 756 The history of cheap *interstreet transportation in New York.
1897Westm. Gaz. 26 Apr. 5/1 International, inter-club, *inter-team, inter-college, or inter-school contests.
1892Daily News 23 Feb. 4/6 For the development of the telephone in London with an *inter-town service all over the country.
1971Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. Jan. 125 Within each order, 21 plates consisting of three different spatial arrangements of each level of number were also shown randomly with an *intertrial interval of 10 seconds. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. Dec. 225 The timer was preset so that the signals for all shock options were of three seconds duration, with a 15-second intertrial interval.
1969Daily Tel. 10 Feb. 19/5 Because of bitter *inter-union rivalry, the original purpose of the strike..has become almost totally obscured. 1973Times 17 Jan. 16/8 Eliminating the possibility of inter-union disputes in one factory.
1870John Morgan University Oars, Wordsworth..legitimately to be looked upon as the father of the *inter-university [rowing] match. 1874Graphic 4 Apr. 327/3 Contemporaneous with the boat race are several other Inter-University contests. 1891Chas. Wordsworth Ann. Early Life 56 Encouraged by the example of the inter-university cricket match, which had taken place in 1827, we talked over the possibility of getting up a similar competition in rowing. 1956Nature 3 Mar. 405/1 In 1944 the Secretary of State for the Colonies invited British universities to set up an Inter-University Organization to assist the development of higher education in the Colonies. 1970Internat. & Compar. Law Q. XIX. i. 181 Dr. Verheul is now Head of the private international law department of the T.M.C. Asser Institute in The Hague, an inter-university institute which is engaged in comprehensive documentation in the field of international law.
1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., *Inter-valve, in steam-engines, noting the space which is between the throttle- and slide-valves. 1921Wireless World 2 Apr. 17/2 The 5-step Amplifier, with intervalve resistance couplings, is of the usual type. 1921Ibid. 14 May 120/1 Substitute an intervalve transformer for your telephone transformer.
1885Whitaker's Alm. 400/2 Oxford, for the third year in succession, won the *inter-'varsity match against Cambridge. 1897Westm. Gaz. 8 Mar. 9/3 The Inter-'Varsity sports.
1949M. Mead Male & Female 413 The biggest *inter⁓village economic exchange.
1844Kinglake Eothen xii. (1878) 162 Speaking in short *inter-whiff sentences.
1960*Inter-zone [see dust v.1 12 c]. 1961Times 8 June 5/2 They gained a 5–1 winning lead over Denmark in the inter-zone final.
6. The following adjectives (mostly Anat.) belonging to the uses mentioned in 4, are given here as being of subordinate importance, but not self-explanatory. For those of greater importance see their alphabetical places. interacˈcessory, situated, as a muscle, between accessory processes of the vertebræ. interacinar |-ˈæsɪnə(r)| = interacinous. interacinous |-ˈæsɪnəs|, situated or occurring between or among the acini of a gland. interadˈventual, intervening between the first and second Advents. interˈandean, situated between or among the Andes. interaryˈtenoid, situated between the arytenoid cartilages of the larynx. interasteˈroidal Astron., situated within the orbits of the asteroids. interˈastral, situated or taking place between or among the stars. interˈatrial, situated between the atria of the heart; interauˈricular, ‘situated between the auricles of the heart’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1887). inter-Auˈstralian, existing or carried on between the different Australian colonies. intercanaˈlicular, situated between or among minute canals. inter-ˈcardinal, of points of the compass: lying midway between the cardinal points; also as n. intercaˈrotic, intercaˈrotid, situated between the two carotid arteries. interˈcarpal, situated or occurring between the bones of the carpus. interˈcerebral, situated between the cerebral hemispheres, or between two cerebral ganglia. intercivic |-ˈsɪvɪk|, existing or carried on between fellow-citizens. intercoccygeal |-kɒkˈsɪdʒiːəl|, intercocˈcygean, situated or occurring between portions of the coccyx. interˈcoracoid, situated between the coracoid processes of the shoulder-blades. interˈcortical, situated within the (or a) cortex (properly intracortical). interˈcosmic, -ical, situated or existing between worlds. interˈcotyloid, existing between the cotyloid cavities of the hip-joints. interˈcranial, situated within the skull (properly intracranial). interˈcultural Agric.: see quot. interepiˈthelial, situated between or among cells of the epithelium. interfraˈternal, existing or carried on between brothers. interˈgenic [genic a.], taking place or existing between neighbouring genes. intergyral |-ˈdʒaɪərəl|, situated between gyri or convolutions of the brain. interhemiˈcerebral, situated between the hemispheres of the brain. interhemiˈspheric, situated between two hemispheres, esp. those of the brain. interimˈperial, carried on between or connecting the various countries of the (British) Empire. interˈinsular, carried on or plying between islands. interlatiˈtudinal, situated between particular parallels of latitude. intermaˈmmillary, situated or placed between the breasts. interˈmastoid, extending between the mastoid processes of the temporal bones of the skull. † interˈmealary, -iary, held or performed between meals. interˈmembral, subsisting (as a relation) between members or limbs, as intermembral homology. intermeningeal |-miːˈnɪndʒiːəl|, occuring between two of the investing membranes of the brain. interˈmental, taking place between different minds. intermerˈcurial Astron. (properly intra-), situated within the orbit of Mercury. intermetaˈcarpal, situated between the bones of the metacarpus; so also intermetaˈtarsal. interˈmontane, situated between mountains (Webster, 1828). interˈocular, situated or occurring between the eyes. interˈolivary, ‘situated between the olivary bodies’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). interˈoptic, situated between the optic lobes of the brain. interˈpalpebral, situated between the eyelids. interparenchymal |-pəˈrɛŋkɪməl| Biol., situated within the parenchyma, e.g. of an infusorian (properly intraparenchymal). interˈpectoral, situated between the two sides of the breast. interˈpetalary Bot., ‘situated between petals’ (Worcester, citing Smith). interˈpetaloid Zool., situated between petaloid parts, as in an echinoderm. interphalangeal |-fəˈlændʒiːəl|, situated between two successive phalanges of a finger or toe. interˈplanar Cryst., existing between the planes of a crystal lattice. interplical |-ˈplaɪkəl|, situated between folds (see plica 2). interpopuˈlational, occurring or existing between populations or groups. interˈportal, existing or carried on between ports, esp. those of the same country. interprotoˈplastic Biol., situated between, or connecting, masses of protoplasm. interˈproximal Dentistry, situated between adjacent teeth; on or affecting the surfaces bounding such a region. interˈpupillary, existing between the pupils of the eyes. intersciatic |-saɪˈætɪk|, situated or extending between the hip-bones (see sciatic). intersynapˈticular Zool., situated between the synapticulæ or cross-bars of actinozoan corals. interˈtarsal Anat., situated between the bones of the tarsus. interˈtidal, inhabiting the sea-shore between the limits of low and high tide. interˈtonic, occurring between two tones or stresses. intertriniˈtarian, taking place between the persons of the Trinity. intertrochanˈteric, situated between two trochanters; spec. applied to a line or ridge between the greater and lesser trochanter of the femur. intertuˈbercular, placed or situated between tubercles. interˈtubular, situated between tubes or tubuli. interˈungular, interˈungulate, situated between the hoofs (e.g. in sheep). intervaˈrietal, formed or obtained from, or occurring between, (members of) different varieties (variety 6 b). interˈveinal Bot., situated or occurring between the veins of a leaf. interˈxylary Bot., situated within the secondary xylem. interzoœcial |-zəʊˈiːʃɪəl|, intervening between or among the zoœcia of a polyzoan. interzygapophysial |-zɪgəpəʊˈfɪzɪəl|, situated between the zygapophyses or articular processes of the vertebræ. interzygomatic |-zɪgəʊˈmætɪk|, lying between the zygomatic arches of the skull.
1900Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp. XI. 205/2 *Interacinar cell islets have been studied by Harris and Gow. 1961Lancet 29 July 258/2 A high prevalence of pancreatic arteriosclerosis..could have caused the associated insular and interacinar fibrosis and hyalinisation.
1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 271 Indurating inflammations, in which *inter-acinous, inter-lobular, connective tissue increases in quantity.
1886Warfield in Expositor Dec. 441 This *inter-adventual period is..to be a period of conflict.
1870J. Orton Andes & Amazons ii. xxxiv. (1876) 444 The *interandean plateau.
1872Cohen Dis. Throat 47 The arytenoids, separated from each other by a fissure known as the *inter-arytenoid incisure.
1873Chase in Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. XIII. 156 *Interasteroidal planets.
1882‘N. Greene’ Thousand years Hence 110 The wide *interastral ocean. 1892Working Men's College Jrnl. Oct. 118 The method of interastral communication, if ever one is discovered.
1911Stedman Med. Dict. 431/1 *Interatrial, between the atria of the heart. 1967G. M. Wyburn et al. Conc. Anat. iii. 89/1 On the interatrial septum there is a shallow depression, the fossa ovalis.
1889Pall Mall G. 15 Nov. 1/3 Did you..urge *inter-Australian federation as the first step to Imperial Federation?
1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 234 In these cases the *intercanalicular tissue is little altered.
1909Webster, *Intercardinal, adj.—n., an intercardinal point. 1961F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 121 Inter-cardinal points, the half-cardinals. 1969Gloss. Terms Magnetic Compasses & Binnacles (B.S.I.) 5 Inter⁓cardinal points. These are north-east, south-east, south-west, north-west and may be marked with the capital letters NE, SE, SW, and NW respectively.
1884Holden Anat. (ed. 5) 486 The *intercarotic ganglion.
1885― Hum. Osteol. 124 The bones of the first row..form, with the bones of the second row, an important moveable joint, which we call the ‘*intercarpal’.
1895G. Allen Woman who did xvii, It is the last word of the *intercivic war.
1857Bullock Cazeaux's Midwif. 25 These *inter-coccygeal articulations are similarly constructed.
1902Proc. Zool. Soc. II. 215 Cortex [of the sponge] fibrous throughout,..without *intercortical cavities. 1924R. M. Ogden tr. Koffka's Growth of Mind ii. 55 According to Edinger, morphological changes in the brain are indicated by..the growth of intercortical pathways. 1933J. Rosett Intercortical Syst. Human Cerebrum iv. 26 In the course of cerebral evolution the intercortical systems increase in number and in bulk.
1883A. Winchell World-Life 49 (Cent.) The doctrine of attenuated matter scattered through the *intercosmical spaces of organized systems.
1859Todd Cycl. Anat. V. 168/2 The great *intercotyloid distance gives to their gait its peculiar waddle.
1878E. L. Sturtevant (title) *Intercultural Tillage. 1878Pop. Sci. Monthly July 376 By ‘intercultural tillage’, Dr. Sturtevant means tilling, stirring the soil, while the plant is growing.
1899Sayce Early Israel i. 55 The tribes..plunged into *interfraternal war.
1941Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. IX. 161/1 The breaks of minute rearrangements would in all probability differ from them in being only *intergenic. 1951G. H. Bourne Cytol. & Cell Physiol. (ed. 2) v. 225 It..assumes that there are no non-genic portions of the chromosome (matrix, intergenic connexions). 1968Canad. Jrnl. Genetics & Cytol. X. 50 A UV-sensitive mutant of Aspergillus rugulosus unrelated to intergenic crossing over.
1884Pall Mall G. 10 Oct. 11/2 The schooner was in the usual style of the *inter-insular boats, foully dirty.
1882Knowledge 7 July 91 If we..divide it into six *interlatitudinal zones or belts.
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 244 Most of the young ladies..had his effigies in a little oval tablet of gold hanging 'twixt their breasts, and held..that metamazion, or *intermammillary ornament, a necessary outward pendicle.
1864Reader 9 July 52/1 Greater proportionate development of the zygomatic and *intermastoid diameters.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman D'Alf. ii. 240 In her banquets, feasts and other *inter-mealary-intertainments.
a1652Brome Mad Couple v. ii. Wks. 1873 I. 92 Noonings, and *intermealiary Lunchings.
1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 316 *Inter-meningeal apoplexy.
1887F. R. Stockton Borrowed Month 225 That congruent *intermental action of the intellect of two persons.
1871tr. Schellen's Spectr. Anal. lii. 233 The search for *intermercurial planets.
1881Mivart Cat 102 An *inter⁓metacarpal ligament.
1887Syd. Soc. Lex., *Intermetatarsal arteries..I. ligaments.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 316 Antennæ..*Interocular..When inserted any where between the eyes. 1881Le Conte Sight 109 Equal to the interocular distance.
1892A. Duane tr. Fuchs' Textbk. Ophthalm. xii. 467 That part of the cornea and of the scleral conjunctiva which ordinarily is not covered by the lids is called the *interpalpebral zone... When the eyes are a little screwed together..the interpalpebral zone diminishes in size. 1934E. Wolff Path. Eye ii. 29 Pinguecula, or interpalpebral spot, is a slightly raised yellowish area placed next to the inner or outer margin of the cornea.
1854Owen Skel. & Teeth in Circ. Sc., Organ. Nat. I. 222 In the goose and duck tribes..the *interpectoral ridge extends from the prominent part of the coracoid margin backwards.
1884Science IV. 223 (Cent.) The *interpetaloid spaces [on parts of recent and fossil crinoids] are plain, and devoid of sculpture.
1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 82 The *interphalangeal joints of the fingers swell.
1932Amer. Mineralogist XVII. 549 (caption) The values given are the calculated *interplanar spacings. 1948K. Lonsdale Crystals & X-Rays iii. 77 There is now, however, no way of measuring interplanar angles. 1970A. J. C. Wilson Elem. X-Ray Crystallogr. ii. 19 All the interplanar spacings capable of producing lines in an X-ray powder photograph can be obtained by consideration of the distance between successive planes of the lattice points.
1900Proc. U.S. Nat. Museum XXIII. 398 The term *interplical ridge has been applied to the summit of the radial convexities of the wing and interplical groove the bottom of the alternating concavities. 1903Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. CXCV. 161 The thickened chitin bands, which..are in contact by those edges directed towards the interplical space, are here divaricated.
1971Listener 30 Dec. 907 There are no known IQ tests which are capable of overcoming the *interpopulational cross-cultural barrier. 1971McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 253 Interpopulational developmental comparisons..helped to clarify what in the past seemed to be an aberrant course of leaf development.
1881Sir W. Hunter in Encycl. Brit. XII. 764/1, 32 millions represent *interportal, and 25 millions foreign trade. 1888Engineer 21 Dec. 517 Competition by foreigners in the interportal trade of the East.
1898Pop. Sci. Monthly LIII. 856 The *interprotoplastic threads have so far received no conclusive interpretation.
1897E. C. Kirk Amer. Textbk. Operative Dentistry iii. 97 The counteraction of the tongue and cheek..drives the finer particles of the food into the *interproximal spaces. 1908G. V. Black Operative Surg. 211 (heading) Interproximal wear and its treatment. Ibid. 213 If there has been much loss of inter⁓proximal gum tissue..watch the case for a few weeks. 1960Kerr & Ash Oral Path. vii. 115 Interproximal caries involve all of the teeth, but the molars and bicuspids are involved more frequently than the incisors. 1972S. Garfield Teeth iv. 88 The small spaces between adjacent teeth around the contact points are called Contact Areas or Interproximal Spaces. Ibid. ix. 133 Inside the ridges between the roots of each adjacent tooth the bone is called Interproximal Bone.
1907J. H. Parsons Dis. Eye xxvi. 525 With an *interpupillary distance of 60 mm. this angle is about 2°. 1962L. S. Sasieni Princ. & Pract. Optical Dispensing v. 106 (heading) Inter-pupillary distance.
1866Huxley Preh. Rem. Caithn. 143 The excessively narrow *intersciatic diameter which characterises the Australian male pelvis.
1887G. C. Bourne in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sc. Jan. 303 Ligaments passing down through the *intersynapticular spaces.
1878Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 488 It moves on an *intertarsal joint.
1883Ray Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 648/1 The Limpet being a strictly *intertidal organism.
1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., *Intertonic. 1953K. H. Jackson Lang. & Hist. in Early Brit. ii. 268 Syncope of intertonic syllables in Vulgar Latin.
1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 465 We cannot conceive of such a self-reduction of the Logos without suspending the *intertrinitarian process. 1890― Creed Revis. 3 In the single eternal intertrinitarian procession of the Spirit.
1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 814/1 Approximated..to the posterior *intertrochanteric line. 1855Holden Hum. Osteol. (1878) 195 The posterior ‘inter-trochanteric ridge’, is mainly for the support of the great trochanter.
1893Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. XXVII. 260 The level which is expressed by our *inter-tubercular line. 1967G. M. Wyburn et al. Conc. Anat. ii. 53/1 The muscle is inserted..into the lateral lip of the intertubercular groove on the front of the humerus.
1847–9Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 570/2 The *intertubular substance. 1854Owen Skel. & Teeth in Circ. Sc., Organ. Nat. I. 265 A small portion of human dentine, showing the tubuli..in the inter⁓tubular substance. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 354 The intertubular substance [of the kidney] shares in the inflammatory process.
1870Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 44 Glands..according to the locality in which they are situated, known as anal, inguinal, *interungular, and preputial.
1885Syd. Soc. Lex. s.v. Gland, *Interungulate G., the Canalis biflexus.
1916Mem. N.Y. Bot. Garden VI. 352 No essential differences were noted in *intervarietal fertility and fruitfulness. Ibid., Intervarietal crosses. 1951New Biol. XI. 115 In Paramecium aurelia there are seven varieties, and each variety contains types I and II... Intervarietal mating takes place very rarely and then only between type I of one variety and type II of the other.
1934Webster, *Interveinal. 1946Nature 9 Nov. 663/2 The virus strain used produced a bright yellow interveinal mottle in the tomato. 1970Bot. Gaz. CXXXI. 152/1 This strip [of leaf] was five interveinal areas wide at the upper margin.
1889Ann. Bot. III. 293 The phloëm-islands, or *interxylary phloëm-strands, are formed centripetally by certain portions of the normal cambium. 1969K. Esau Phloem vi. 213 In..the interxylary or included phloem, the cambium..forms periodically some phloem increments towards the interior of the stem so that the phloem becomes embedded in the xylem.
1884Nature 24 July 306/2 The arrangement of the *interzoœcial pores may frequently give great assistance, and these are considered the equivalents of the rosette-plates.
1872Mivart Elem. Anat. 40 A strong *interzygapophysial ridge may connect together the pre and post-zygapophyses of each side of a vertebra.
1870Rolleston Anim. Life 7 The *interzygomatic diameter is in all Rodents the widest transverse cranial diameter.
Add:[II.] [4.] [a.] interarterial a.
1927Physiol. Rev. VII. 480 Intravenous injection of this substance produces in experimental animals..profound vasoconstriction, with consequent elevation of the *inter-arterial pressure and slowing of the cardiac rate. 1978Sci. Amer. Apr. 60/2 The brain can tolerate partial obstruction of flow through an artery supplying a localized region, depending on the adequacy of the ‘collateral circulation’ through smaller interarterial channels.
[b.] interannual a.
1976Copeia iii. 488/1 We must now determine by a comparison of *interannual changes of the population densities the role of environmental factors in the population dynamics of these lizards. 1989Nature 14 Sept. 134/1 The record of observations shows considerable variability on interannual and interdecadal timescales.
[c.] For ‘-denominational’ read ‘-denominational (also -denominationally adv.)’.
1979Washington Post 6 May b3/2 An *interdenominationally sponsored community organization. 1990Independent 19 Dec. 18/4 ‘Season's Greetings’ are universally, interdenominationally..accepted.
inter-familial a.
1954M. Lowry Let. 10 May (1967) 367 Someone supplicated our own aid in a manner almost as urgent as we had..the air force officer, though the urgency in this case was more psychological or *interfamilial. 1989Washington Post 10 July b9/2 One needn't be planning a massive blue-collar blowout to produce interfamilial tensions.
For ‘-generational’ read ‘-generational (also -generationally adv.)’.
1977A. Giddens Stud. in Social & Polit. Theory v. 207 ‘Closure’ in mobility chances both *inter- and intra-generationally.
For ‘-governmental’ read ‘-governmental (also -governmentally adv.)’.
1982Washington Post 21 May b3/4 A lot of the connections that I've had in Washington have been useful..because I've known how to operate *intergovernmentally.
inter-scholastic a. (chiefly U.S. Sports).
1904Cap & Gown (Chicago) IX. 215 Track Meets and Scores, 1903... Second Annual *Interscholastic Meet, at Marshall Field. 1979Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. (Parade Suppl.) 6/2 Equal opportunity is the rule..in intramural and interscholastic sports.
[6.] intersyˈllabic, occurring or inserted between syllables.
1933Partridge Words, Words, Words! i. 86 Bloody..even served as an *intersyllabic or intervocalic word, as in ‘im-bloody-possible’ or ‘too bloody right’. 1977Word 1972 XXVIII. 220 Intersyllabic consonant clusters were exchanged in such a way that a later consonant was anticipated inversely, spontaneously..and metalinguistically.
▸ intertitle n. Cinematogr. and Television a full-screen image of text inserted into the body of a film, television programme, etc., usually to express dialogue or to explain the plot, esp. in silent films.
1939A. Cavalcanti in Films Nov. The *intertitles all bore the picture of a candle behind the printed words. 1971N.Y. Times 19 Dec. 13/2 Intrusive intertitles and similar devices keep hitting you in the face. 1987D. Clandfield Canad. Film iv. 58 In the period of silent films translated versions were easy to provide: intertitles often appeared in both French and English consecutively during the same projection. 2002Sight & Sound Apr. 72/3 As no attempt has been made to replicate the aesthetic feel of the originals, I personally experienced the switch to each intertitle as a break in the flow of the film. |