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interior, a. and n.|ɪnˈtɪərɪə(r)|
Also 5 -ore, 6 -oure, 6–9 -our.
[a. L. interior inner, comparative adj. from inter (superlative intimus). Cf. F. intérieur, 16th c. (also rare interior, 15th c.). Our earliest instance is in a transl. from Fr.; the early spelling followed words from AF. -our = F. -eur. Cf. the parallel inferior. Opposed in all senses and uses to exterior.]
A. adj.
1. a. Situated more within, or (usually, simply) within, something; belonging to or connected with the inside; = inner a. 1 a, internal a. 1.
interior angle (Geom.): any one of the angles included between the sides of a rectilineal figure within the figure; also, an angle included between a straight line falling upon two other straight lines and either of the latter on the side towards the other. interior planets: Mercury and Venus, whose orbits are within that of the earth (more usually called inferior). interior screw, interior side, interior slope: see quots.
1490Caxton Eneydos xiii. 47 Dydo wyth her suster Anne..loked In to the entraylles Interiores of the bestes there slayne, For to fuldo the sacryfyce. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 3400 Her..interiour vesture. 1578Lyte Dodoens iii. xii. 333 All colde diseases of the interior or inner partes. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. vi. 23 Sense is Motion in the organs and interiour parts of mans body. 1706Phillips s.v. Polygon, Interior Polygon, the main Body of the Work or Place, excluding the Out-works. Ibid. s.v. Talus, Talus Interiour or Inward Talus, the Steepness of the Rampart, or other Work on the in-side. 1723Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth i. (ed. 3) 3 Cole-pits and the like..displayed to sight the interiour parts of it. 1756R. Simson Euclid i. Prop. xvi, If one side of a triangle be produced, the exterior angle shall be greater than either of the interior opposite angles. Ibid. xxxii, The three interior angles of any triangle are equal to two right angles. 1853Stocqueler Mil. Encycl., Interior flanking angle is formed by the curtain and line of defence..Interior side is the line of the curtain produced to the two oblique radii of the front, or a line drawn from the centre of one bastion to that of the next. Interior slope is the inclination towards the inner part of a work given to the earth forming the rampart or parapet. 1863Tyndall Heat v. §160 (1870) 135 Also accomplishes what we may call interior work. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Interior Screw, one cut on an interior or hollow surface, as of a nut, burr, or tap-hole.
b. rarely with to: Situated within or on the inner side of (something).
1816T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall vi, The library..which was interior to the music-room. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Inferior Planets, this name..is applied to Mercury and Venus, because they revolve in orbits interior to the earth's path.
c. Situated within and at a distance from the coast, or frontier of a country, etc.; inland; belonging to the interior.
1777Sir W. Jones Ess. Poetry East. Nat. in Poems 177 In the interiour parts of the empire. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 160 Proximity to the Bay of Fundy, and principal interiour settlements of the province. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. x. 114 To learn something of the interior features of the country. 1895Westm. Gaz. 9 Sept. 2/1 He knew of no other interior chief who had even attempted the half that Khama had accomplished in the advancing of his people towards the goal of civilisation. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 636 Coomassie..if properly managed for a few years, will become a great interior market, attracting to itself the routes of interior trade.
d. Entom. Situated nearer to the body or to the median line.
1862Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 339 Interior [margin], the inner margin of the wing, or that next the body.
2. Existing within limits figured as spatial; belonging to the inner relations or intrinsic nature of anything.
a. Internal, domestic: as opposed to foreign.
1768P. Thicknesse (title) Useful Hints to those who make the Tour of France, including Account of the Interior Police of that Kingdom. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. v. 198 The interior trade, or that from place to place within the country. 1841Penny Cycl. XX. 264/2 (Russia) The administration..is conducted by the..Ministry of foreign affairs, Ministry of interior affairs, or home department [etc.].
b. Inner, as distinct from what appears on the surface or is publicly declared.
1775Hist. Eur. in Ann. Reg. 44/1 He was thwarted and overruled by what in the cant phrase is called the interior cabinet. 1790Sir J. Reynolds Disc. xv. (1876) 100 To draw out the interior principles of our art. 1791Burke Let. Memb. Nat. Assembly Wks. VI. 61 The exterior or interiour purposes of the French monarchy. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 241 There was to be no interior cabinet. All the thirty were to be entrusted with every political secret, and summoned to every meeting.
3. a. Belonging to or existing in the mind or soul; mental or spiritual, as distinguished from that which is bodily; ‘inward’: = inner a. 2, internal a. 3.
1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 1304 Wherby he perceyued the great holynesse Of blessed saynt Cead and interyor deuocyon. 1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV 219 Peraventure..that her interior iye sawe privily, and gave to her a secrete monicion of the greate calamities. c1566J. Alday tr. Boaystuau's Theat. World T iv, To exercise his fancie and other interior senses. 1651C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 298 They doe not deny but that it may be called a Sacrament, and that some interiour Grace is conferred by it. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) V. xlii. 260 A number of people, of high interior worth. 1852H. Rogers Ess. I. vii. 337 One or two extracts..give the key to his whole interior history. 1899Findlay in Expositor Feb. 90 The outcome of the interior, spiritual action of Christ upon human society.
†b. Inwardly conceived or felt. Obs.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV 25 The Earle of Northumberland..began secretely to communicate his interior imaginacions and privie thoughtes with Richard Scrope. 1610Death Rauilliack in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 110 We thinke it an interior loue to our countri-men to haue an abstract of the most occurences that hapned since.
c. Devoted to spiritual things; pious, devout.
1854J. H. Newman Lect. Hist. Turks 257 An apposite illustration of what I mean by an ‘interior’ people, if I may borrow a devotional word to express a philosophical idea. 1863Home & For. Rev. II. 274 So pious, so contemplative, and so interior a spirit. 1879W. G. Ward Ess. (1884) II. x. 9 Difference..between the interior and the worldly man respectively.
4. Special collocations, as interior monologue (cf. F. monologue intérieur), a form of writing in which the inner thoughts of a character are presented; interior spring (also interior-sprung) mattress, one with coiled springs within.
1922tr. V. Larbaud in Criterion I. 103 It is of course especially in the interior monologues..that sexual instinct and erotic revery emerge. 1933Joyce Let. 17 Mar. (1966) III. 270 The other [is] going to Rome to lecture on the Interior Monologue. 1952A. Wilson Emile Zola iii. 66 The Impressionist approach which he [sc. Zola] used could have led to a development of the interior monologue, as it did for Tolstoy. 1971Guardian 27 May 8/7 Eight ward-inmates of an old people's home describe themselves in interior monologue that rambles on.
1959Spectator 9 Oct. 498/2 A fridge, interior spring mattresses, even a bath.
1948Binnie & Boxall Housecraft (ed. 4) xvii. 197 Interior sprung beds..may occasionally be turned from side, to side or from end to end. 1951Good Housek. Home Encycl. 187/2 Interior-sprung mattresses do not require such frequent turning. 1961Countryman LVIII. 601 The stretcher felt like an interior-sprung mattress.
B. n.
1. a. The interior part of anything; the inside.
1828Scott F.M. Perth xvii, The Prince..acquainted with its interior, ran up stairs. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. I. 264 The interior..we found very impressive, dim with the light of stained and painted windows. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 46 In the booths which lined the interior of the court. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 188 Deep-seated in the interior of the earth.
b. That part of a country, island, or continent, lying at a distance from the frontier or coast; the inland parts; an inland region.
1796Burke Regic. Peace ii. Wks. VIII. 228 Her frontier was terrible, her interiour feeble. 1803Syd. Smith Wks. 38 Our first acquaintance with the interior of many countries. 1868G. Duff Pol. Surv. 89 The Chinese merchants purchase goods and take them to other ports or the interior. 1883Chambers' Cycl. I. 565 Western Australia..rests on desert sandstone, which also stretches north and eastward far into the interior. Ibid. VII. 251 (Papua) In the interior are abundance of fine timber trees. 1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 159 Sierra Leone..connected with a wide-spread Interior also largely Mohammedan.
c. The inside of a building or room, esp. in reference to the artistic effect; also, a picture or representation of the inside of a building or room. Also, in a theatre, a ‘set’ consisting of the inside of a building or room. (Usually with an or in pl.).
1829H. Foote Compan. to Theatres 57 A few interiors, two or three streets, and about the same number of country views, would last as stock scenery for several seasons. 1858Geo. Eliot Jrnl. 20 May in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) II. viii. 40 The two interiors of Westminster Abbey by Ainmueller admirable. 1864Realm 22 June 7 Everything that brings nature into our interiors deserves encouragement. 1891Anthony's Photogr. Bull. IV. 88 Many points must be borne in mind by the brain behind the lens to direct and then supplement its work, especially in the studio and with interiors. 1898W. Archer Theatr. ‘World’ 1897 180 Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan at the Olympic, made great strides towards realism in the dressing of modern plays and setting of everyday ‘interiors’. a1900Mod. A photographer noted for his success with interiors. 1916J. R. Towse Sixty Yrs. Theater ii. 23 There were no elaborate and costly interiors, no enclosed box scenes, flats and wings were shifted before the eyes of the spectators. 1966J. Potts Footsteps on Stairs (1967) i. 9 She does the most divine interiors.
d. The internal parts of the body, esp. the digestive system. colloq.
1835Dickens Let. 4 Nov. (1965) I. 87 A..Pill—which..is performing such singular evolutions in my interior. 1906Joyce Let. 18 Oct. (1966) II. 183 It [sc. wine] had not the least effect upon..‘my interiors’. 1922― Ulysses 622 Mr Bloom..noticed when he stood up that he had two flasks of presumably ship's rum sticking one out of each pocket for the private consumption of his burning interior.
2. Inner nature or being; inward mind; soul, character. Now chiefly with of.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. ix. 28 Not learning more then the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior. 1690Norris Beatitudes (1694) I. 146 The regulation of the outward Behaviour, not much regarding the Sanctity of the Interiour. 1715J. Barker Exilius I. 97 The Strangeness of the Adventure..gave a pleasing Surprize to my whole Interiour. 1794Paley Evid. i. iii. (1817) 51 It is in our own books that the detail and interior of the transaction must be sought for. 1847L. Hunt Men, Women & B. II. x. 231 Her letters from the Levant are so much in the interior of Turkish taste and feeling. 1865Mozley Mirac. ii. 230 note, There were difficulties in the interior of the subject of induction which were not yet solved.
3. The internal or ‘home’ affairs of a country or state; the department concerned with these: in the titles Secretary, Department of the Interior, used in U.S. and Canada, and Minister of the Interior, used in reference to most foreign countries, as France, Germany, Italy, etc.
(Corresponding to the Home Office, and Home Secretary, in Great Britain, and Hist. to the Colonial Office and Colonial Secretary in most British Colonies.)
1838Penny Cycl. X. 418/2 The cabinet council of the king [of France] consists of eight ministers for the following departments:—1, Finance; 2, the Interior; 3, Justice [etc.]. 1899Whitaker's Almanac 484 (Canada) Sec. of State, Railways & Canals, Finance, Justice, Interior, Public Works, Agriculture, etc. Ibid. 583 (United States of A.) Sec. of State, Treasury, War, Navy, Interior, Agriculture. |