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interchangeably, adv.|ɪntəˈtʃeɪndʒəblɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2. Cf. OF. entrechangeablement.]
1. By way of exchange, reciprocity, or return between two parties, or of mutual correspondence between things; mutually, reciprocally, respectively. Now rare; formerly freq. in the wording of legal compacts (see quots.).
[1351Treaty betw. England & France (Godef.), En tesmoing de les choses les chivalers..ont mis enterchangeablement lours seaulx a ceste presente cedule.] c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Machor 1087 Eftire all þe cumpany has kissit entrechangeably. 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 39 Preamble, [Indentures] Yeven enterchaungeably aswel under the seale of oure seid Sovereign Lord, as the seale of the seid Edmond. 1547Newminster Cartul. (Surtees) 315 The seyd partyez..enterchaungeably haue putt theyr Seales. 1637Heywood Dialogues i. Wks. 1874 VI. 96 Mate..is a word That Sailers interchangeably afford To one another. 1710Steele Tatler No. 199 ⁋7 To which we have interchangeably set our Hands, Hearts, and Seals, this 17th of July 1710. 1786Jefferson Writ. (1859) I. 514, I put several together myself, taking the pieces at hazard..and found them to fit interchangeably in the most perfect manner. 1854De Quincey Autobiog. Sk. Wks. II. 283 Defiances..carried on interchangeably between barn-door cocks.
2. Alternately, in turn, one after the other.
1483Cath. Angl. 116/1 Entirchawngeably, alternatim. 1581Lambarde Eiren. iv. xix. (1588) 598 It is very likely that therupon the same [Sessions] were first kept interchangeably at two sundry townes. 1669Evelyn Diary 9 July, There follow'd divers panegyric speeches both in prose and verse, interchangeably pronounc'd by the young students plac'd in the rostrums. 1710Steele Tatler No. 179 ⁋8 Along the Gravel Walk, I have ranged interchangeably the Bay, the Mirtle, the Orange. 1744A. Dobbs Hudson's Bay 12 All the Month of December was interchangeably three or four Days cold, and then a temperate Frost.
b. Her. (See quot.)
1882Cussans Her. viii. (ed. 3) 129 When Charges are placed in parallel lines, so that the head of each appears between the tails of two others..they are said to be Interchangeably posed.
c. With interchange of state, condition, colour, etc.
1776Bp. Horne Comm. Psalms lxviii. 13 The bright and beautiful plumage of an eastern dove, glistering interchangeably, as with silver and gold.
3. By way of interchange of two (or more) things, each taking the place of the (or an) other; hence of the use of words: synonymously, indifferently. Also const. with.
1587Golding De Mornay xv. 250 Thus haue we three Articles which follow interchaungeably one another Insomuch that he which prooueth any one of them, doth prooue them all three. 1636Prynne Unbish. Tim. 126 [He] twice together cals him, interchaingably, both a Bishop and Elder. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 150 Israel, the house of Israel, the Virgin of Israel, the sanctuaries of Israel, occur interchangeably as the object of Amos's Prophecy. 1873Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) §516 Thereof is used interchangeably with of it in 1 Kings vii. 27. |