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interweave, v.|ɪntəˈwiːv|
Also 6–7 enter-. Pa. tense -wove, pa. pple. -woven (7–8 -wove); also 7–8 -weaved.
[f. inter- 1 b + weave v.]
1. trans. To weave together, as the warp and woof of a fabric; to interlace; to intertwine.
1578[see interweaving vbl. n.]. 1598Florio, Intertessere, to interweaue, to weaue or worke betweene, as tinsell or striped canuasse is. 1649Milton Eikon. xvii. Wks. (1851) 460 Heer we may see the very dark roots..how they twine and interweave one another in the Earth. 1725Pope Odyss. v. 617 Two Olives..With roots intwin'd, and branches interwove. 1778England's Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Isle, Those floats, called coracles,..are of a form almost oval, and made of split sallow twigs interwoven. 1870Rock Text. Fabr. Introd. i. 34 Attalus's name was bestowed upon a new method of interweaving gold with wool or linen. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 33 Muscular fibres are ordinarily interwoven..with its substance.
2. transf. and fig. To intermingle (thoughts, ideas, relations, etc.) as if by weaving; to interlink or intertwine intricately; to blend intimately.
1589[see interweaving vbl. n.]. 1612Drayton Polyolb. To Rdr. A iij, Those Prophecies out of Merlin sometime interwouen. 1628Sir R. Le Grys tr. Barclay's Argenis 304 When he did interweaue the course of affaires, the causes and euents together. 1647Denham Commend. Verses Fletcher, None Can say here Nature ends, and Art begins But mixt like th' Elements, and borne like twins, So interweav'd, so like, so much the same. 1665Hooke Microgr. 70 Uniting and interweaving it self with some other body that is already joyn'd with the tinging particles. 1736Butler Anal. ii. i. Wks. 1874 I. 168 The moral law is..interwoven into our very nature. 1749Fielding Tom Jones iv. viii, He cheered the rural nymphs and swains, when upon the green they interweaved the sprightly dance. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 28 He has interwoven the history of his life with the history of his native town. 1874Green Short Hist. viii. §1. 448 The common phrases, which we owe to great authors..which unconsciously interweave themselves in our ordinary talk.
b. intr. for refl.
1827De Quincey Goethe Wks. 1863 XV. 167 Such subjects..interweave one into another. 1892J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel 48 Drifting down on the dear old River, O, the music that interweaves!
Hence interˈweaved ppl. a., interwoven; interˈweaving ppl. a. Also interˈweavement, interweaving. interˈweaver, one who interweaves. interˈweavingly adv., by way of interweaving.
1598Florio, Intertessitore, an interweauer [1611 enterweauer]. 1665Hooke Microgr. 139, I could not so plainly perceive their joints, or their manner of interweaving. 1700Blackmore Job 31 All his interweaving roots. 1820Mair's Tyro's Dict. (ed. 10) 384 Contextim (adv.), of one piece, interweavingly. 1843For. & Col. Q. Rev. II. 339 Its majestic interweavement with a cosmogony matchless and divine. 1898Daily News 24 Nov. 2/2 Some space of lattice work..with its interweaved greenery. |