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▪ I. interlope, v.|ɪntəˈləʊp|
[Evidently f. inter- 1 + lope, dial. form of leap v., as in land-loper, or the cognate MDu. and LG. lôpen, Du. loopen, to run.
See note below.]
1. intr. ‘To run between parties and intercept the advantage that one should gain from the other; to traffick without a proper licence; to forestall; to anticipate irregularly’ (J.); to intrude within the domain or sphere of action of another; to intrude upon (with indirect passive).
1603–27[see interloping ppl. a.]. 1615Minutes Court East Ind. Co. 22 Feb. (MS.), To examine all suspected personns that intend interlopinge into the East Indies or Muscouy. 1641Heylin Help to Hist. (1680) 304 The Rivers and Courtneys held the Title long: as now the Cavendishes may do..But how long any of them held it, and who they were that interloped we shall..see [etc.]. 1691T. Hale Acc. New Invent. p. xcvii, Patents that interloped in the Conservacy of the River. 1713C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 209 My Industry, he cries, is all the Cause; Sometimes I interlope, and slight the Laws. 1775C. Johnston Pilgrim 106 Not chusing to be interloped upon by their servants. 1801Coleridge Sibyl. Leaves II. 215 Idle Hope And dire Remembrance interlope To vex the feverish slumbers of the mind. 1818Shelley Rev. Islam ix. xxvii, Though some envious shade may interlope Between the effect and it. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xi. (1859) 252 The colours were never blended in the same set, no blackie ever interloped with the browns.
†2. trans. To introduce improperly or out of place; to foist in; to intercalate. Obs.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 515 Aaron..interloped onely a typicall Priesthood for a time unto the Jewes. 1641Heylin Hist. Episc. ii. (1657) 27, I know the antiquaries of that Church have interloped an Anacletus between these two. 1659― Cert. Epist. 301 Grotius interlopes the following passage.
†3. To intrude upon, to interfere with. rare.
1701C. Wolley Jrnl. N. York (1860) 44 Which legal faculties and professions..should not be interlop'd and undermin'd by persons of any other faculties. [Note. The actual history of the words interlope, interloper, is somewhat obscure. Our earliest examples belong to the end of the 16th c. No form nor cognate of these words is found in any other language until after 1700, when the English n. was adopted in Fr. as interlopre (Savary Dict. de Comm. 1723), now interlope, applied to a ship, and to a limited extent in Du. and LG. (enterlopen in Halma, 1758–61, enterloper in Bremisches Wbch. 1767). In Du. enterlooper is expressly stated in 1768 to be ‘van de Engelse ontleend’, borrowed from English, and is explained to mean the same thing as the proper Du. term lorrendraaijer, used from the end of the 16th c. Interlope, interloper were thus of English formation. About 1600, interlopers, intermeddlers, stragglers, straggling Englishmen, occur as appellations of the same class of persons (see interloper 1 a, 1603, intermeddler c, 1601). Some of these synonyms suggest connexion with land-loper, ‘vagabond, vagrant, straggler’, in common use before 1580 in place of the earlier land-leaper (1362–1621), lope being the form of leap in eastern and some north-midl. dialects (= north. dial. loup, lowp). It seems probable therefore that the two elements of interloper are identical with those of inter-meddler and land-loper respectively; at least, this seems more likely than that the word should have been compounded of the L. and Engl. prefix inter- and the Du. or LG. lôpen, loopen to run, lôper, looper runner, a combination which could not well have arisen in England, and of which we have no historical indication in any foreign parts where English and Dutch traders came in contact. The earliest known references to the practices of interlopers are in connexion with the Russia Company; see Sir E. A. Bond's Introduction to Russia at close of 16th c. (Hakl. Soc. 1856) p. xxi. seqq. But the word soon became a well-known term in connexion with the trade of the East India Company, chartered in 1600.] ▪ II. † interlope, n. Obs. rare.
[f. prec. vb.]
The act of interloping.
1645P. Pelham in Hull Lett. (1886) 66, I desire you to write at large of your sufferings by interlope to the Speaker, and to the Committee of Examinations. |