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▪ I. intertwine, v.|ɪntəˈtwaɪn|
[inter- 1 b.]
1. trans. To twine (two or more things) together, or entwine (one thing) with another; to unite by twining; to interlace, intertwist, interweave.
1641Trapp Theologia Theol. 357 The word..signifieth thoughts so perplexed and inter-twined one within another, that there is no way out almost. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 405 Under some concourse of shades, Whose branching arms thick intertwin'd might shield From dews and damps of night his shelter'd head. 1799Wordsw. Infl. Nat. Obj. 6 From my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul. 1800― Hart-leap Well i. xxii, Flowers of stature tall With trailing plants and trees were intertwined. 1841Borrow Zincali I. viii. i. 131 They are busied at their morning's occupation, intertwining..the gold and silk on the tambour. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 93 Faith and works in this sense are in fact inseparably intertwined.
2. intr. for refl. To twine or become entwined with one another.
1782J. Scott Ecl. Rural Scenery Poems 99 O'er my darken'd casement intertwine The fragrant briar, the woodbine, and the vine. 1794Cowper Needless Alarm 16 Horrid brambles intertwine below. 1851Nichol Archit. Heavens (ed. 9) 46 Intertwining and forming a most curious and complex network.
3. trans. To twine round and involve. rare.
1717Croxall tr. Ovid's Met. vi. (R.), Fresh flow'rs, which twists of ivy intertwine. 1847Emerson Poems, Dæmonic Love ii, Their cords of love so public are, They intertwine the farthest star.
Hence interˈtwined ppl. a.
a1680T. Brooks in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xciv. 12 My..ensnared, intertwined, and perplexed thoughts. 1862Smiles Engineers III. 224 The surface-ground..containing the intertwined roots of heather and long grass.
▪ II. ˈintertwine, n. rare.
[f. prec.]
= next.
1812Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1836) I. 340 Oft are the flowers of the bind-weed mistaken for the growth of the plant, which it chokes with its intertwine. 1817― Lay Serm. in Biog. Lit. (1882) 399 They were twined at the very root, and could not grow or thrive but in intertwine. |