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interwork, v.|ɪntəˈwɜːk|
Also 7 enter-. Pa. tense and pple. -wrought |-ˈrɔːt|, -worked |-ˈwɜːkt|.
[inter- 1 b.]
trans. To work one thing into and through another to combine by interpenetration.
1603Florio Montaigne ii. ix, They had..certaine armes so curiously enter-wrought as they seemed to be made like feathers. a1618Raleigh Maxims St. in Remains (1661) 9 The several States are sometimes mixed, and inter-wrought one with the other. 1882Masson in Athenæum 25 Feb. 251/2 Results from all these are interwrought with facts from Mr. Page's narrative and documents.
b. intr. To work upon each other; to interact.
1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1883) I. i. ii. 92 The Roman character did not interwork into the general Christianity alone. 1876W. Alexander Bampton Lect. (1877) 216 Where various laws meet and interwork harmoniously. 1877E. R. Conder Bas. Faith ii. 53 Two divers sets of causes are ever interworking and counterworking in the tangled web of human affairs.
Hence interˈworking vbl. n. and ppl. a.; interˈwrought ppl. a.
1641Milton Reform. ii. (1851) 36 What interweavings or interworkings can knit the Minister and the Magistrate in their several Functions, to the regard of any precise correspondency? 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. vii. (1852) 201 Circumstances, possessing..no moral interworking energies. 1895Chamb. Jrnl. XII. 780 This way and that they lurched, with interwrought limbs. |