† intern.1
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
= interment n.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun]
burying1297
sepulture1297
intermentc1330
gravingc1340
interring1387
terment1389
earthinga1400
sepulchrea1425
burial1453
inter1513
entombing1564
sepultary1581
laying1604
tumulation1623
humation1635
inhumation1636
sepelition1637
entombment1666
tombing1818
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. ii. 151 Til his funerale entire [1553 entyre], or sacrifice, Do bring the blak beistis.
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intern.2
/ˈɪntə/ colloquial.
An intermediate examination (in arts, etc.).
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society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > other examinations
recitation1770
screw1810
term paper1873
trade test1880
City and Guilds1882
entry exam1886
inter1891
pop quiz1931
1891–2 London Univ. Guide 29 Inter. Arts Honours.
1891–2 London Univ. Guide 40 Inter. Science and Prel. Sci. Exams.
1913 W. Owen Let. 28 Sept. (1967) 199 He was a student of Nottingham College, but failed to pass Inter-Arts.
1948 L. Walmsley Master Mariner ii. i. 134 He had entered for a degree in science, had passed his ‘inter’ with the same ease as he'd passed his matric, and was sitting for his final in the coming term.
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interv.
/ɪnˈtəː/, U.S. /ᵻnˈtər/ 1.
a. transitive. To deposit (a corpse) in the earth, or in a grave or tomb; to inhume, bury.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > bury or entomb [verb (transitive)]
bedelveOE
begraveOE
burya1000
beburyc1000
bifel-ec1000
layc1000
to fall, lull, lay (bring obs.) asleepOE
tombc1275
gravec1300
inter1303
rekec1330
to lap in leadc1340
to lay to rest, abed, to bed1340
lie1387
to louk in clay (lead, etc.)?a1400
to lay lowa1425
earthc1450
sepulture1490
to put awaya1500
tyrea1500
mould1530
to graith in the grave1535
ingrave1535
intumulate1535
sepult1544
intumil?c1550
yird1562
shrinea1566
infera1575
entomb1576
sepelite1577
shroud1577
funeral1578
to load with earth1578
delve1587
to lay up1591
sepulchrize1595
pit-hole1607
infuneral1610
mool1610
inhumate1612
inurna1616
inhume1616
pit1621
tumulate1623
sepulchrea1626
turf1628
underlay1639
urna1657
to lay to sleep, asleep1701
envaulta1745
plant1785
ensepulchre1820
sheugh1839
to put under1879
to lay away1885
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > bury or entomb [verb (transitive)] > said of the earth or tomb
tomba1586
wrap1602
sepulchre1608
inhume1621
intera1631
hearse1796
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > in or as in other specific receptacle or enclosure > of the tomb: to enclose the corpse
intera1631
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β. 1499 Promptorium Parvulorum (Pynson) sig. fiiv/2 Entyryn or intyryn dede men.1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Componere To bury or interre.1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Albanacte xlii To interre the dead.1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 58 Being come to the Burying-place where the Corps is to be Interr'd, they take it out of the Coffin.1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 165. ¶10 She..was interred according to her Request.1755 Capt. P. Drake i. 3 Staying but one Day after the Battle to inter Lord Dungan.1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 44 James..had not ventured to inter his brother with the rites of the Church of Rome.1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 6390 Þe sone..come home to þe enteryng.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxiii In þe kyrk of Dwnfermlyne Hys Body wes enteryd syne.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur x. li Thenne the kynge lete entyere them in a chappel.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xix. 224 Thar, with gret solempnite And with gret dule, entyrit [1489 Adv. erdyt] wes he.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxiv. 482 To be entred with the greatter solemnytie.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward V f. xivv His body and head wer enterred at Wyndesore.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. ii. 77 The euill that men do, liues after them, The good is oft enterred with their bones. View more context for this quotation
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 35 Dead and enterr'd.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. iii. sig. E3 I will interre my selfe in Ploydens Coffin.
1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xxviii. sig. P6v O Signiour..giue me leaue to interre my selfe in your armes.
1651 tr. F. de Quintana Hist. Don Fenise 136 I resolved to enterre my selfe alive in this desert.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 8 Yet man, fool man! here burys all his Thoughts; Inters celestial Hopes without one Sigh.
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1645 J. Milton Epit. Marchioness of Winchester in Poems 23 This rich Marble doth enterr The honour'd Wife of Winchester.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > cover over or up > under the ground or bury
delvec1175
indelve1382
mine?1440
dig1530
bury1535
inter1601
inhume1626
turf1628
earthen1708
inearth1801
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 17 It is very good to enterre and couer with mould round about the leaues, now one, and then another.
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) 19 Be circumspect never to interr your stem deeper than you found it standing.
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 13 How these Sea-shells..became interr'd in the bowels of the Earth.
1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at Interrment Gardeners also Interr, or earth up, sellery, endive, and lettice, to blanch, or whiten..them.
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interprep.
/ˈɪntə/† With English object: between, among. Obsolete. rare.
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a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 293 The great garboyles inter Herod and his sons.
Phrases
In a few Latin phrases occasional in English.
a. inter alia: amongst other things.
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society > law > transfer of property > [phrase] > between living persons
inter alia1665
the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > [phrase] > between themselves
inter alia1665
society > law > legal document > types of legal or official document > [phrase] > of deed: between two parties
inter alia1665
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > condition or state of being inclusive > included [phrase] > amongst others
inter alia1665
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [phrase] > relevant only to two parties
inter alia1665
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 195 Three errant Monks..make strange discoveries as well as descriptions of places; and inter alia of Cambalu.
1872 J. A. H. Murray Synopsis Horæ Paul. 1 A Narrative called the Acts of the Apostles, purporting to furnish (inter alia) memoirs of portions of the life of St. Paul.
b. inter alios: amongst others, other persons. rare.
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a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 152 The Lords produce inter alios, John Duke of Lancaster.
1896 Lely Stat. Pract. Utility 39 (note) By the letters patent the governors include (inter alios) the archbishops and bishops.
c. inter nos: between ourselves.
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1714 J. Swift Imit. Hor. Sat. ii. vi Where all that passes inter nos Might be proclaimed at Charing-cross.
1790 M. Cutler Jrnl. 24 Feb. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 459 This request is inter nos, and [I] wish my name may not be mentioned.
d. inter partes: (Law) of an action: relevant only to the two parties in a particular case (see quot. 19662); (of a deed or the like) made between two parties.
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1816 Maule & Selwyn Rep. Cases King's Bench III. 308 A deed inter partes cannot operate as a release to strangers.
1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 16 Jan. 10/2 Mr. Bodwell..contended that this must not be considered an action inter partes; in form it may have been, but in substance it was a propounding of the will.
1960 Times 4 Aug. 11/5 On July 19 the injunction was granted in an inter partes form.
1966 H. K. Black & D. J. L. Brown Outl. Eng. Law vi. xvii. 160 In modern terms actions are either Actions in Rem or Actions in Personam or Inter Partes.
1966 H. K. Black & D. J. L. Brown Outl. Eng. Law vi. xvii. 161 An action..inter partes produces a judgment which is binding only as between the parties to the case and not upon third parties.
1968 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 106 The old common law rule that in an indenture inter partes the covenantee must be named as a party to the indenture to take the benefit of an immediate grant or the benefit of a covenant.
1971 Mod. Law Rev. 34 vi. 605 The Court gives decisions on preliminary points of law..when such questions are referred to it by municipal courts or tribunals in the course of proceedings inter partes.
e. inter se: between or among themselves.
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1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. ii. 223 The truly ‘little wars’ which Spaniards wage inter se.
1888 G. F. Stout Stud. Philos. & Psychol. (1930) i. 42 Forms of combination among presentations other than those by which sense-perceptions are connected inter se.
1971 Mod. Law Rev. 34 vi. 598 Suppose that..the inter se doctrine of Commonwealth relations had emerged as a credible body of legal principle.
1972 Times 14 Mar. 12/2 The essential link between members of a volunteer unit was not their contractual relationship inter se but their common military service to the Crown.
f. inter vivos: between living persons (esp. of a gift as opposed to a legacy).
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1837 T. Lewin Pract. Treat. Law Trusts & Trustees vi. 86 The Bank of England cannot be made a trustee, for the Company will not enter notice of instruments inter vivos upon their books.
1949 W. B. Leach Cases Law of Wills 30 In 1931 decedent had created a large inter vivos trust.
1955 Times 8 June 4/3 Transfer of property through inheritance or inter vivos gifts or settlements should reckon as realization.
1963 Economist 16 Mar. 976/1 Death duties are..largely avoided by transfers inter vivos.
1969 Daily Tel. 1 Oct. 20/6 Half the Seafield ‘empire’ is owned by Lord Reidhaven following his mother's foresight in transferring the property outside the inter vivos period, which exonerates the assets from death duty.
1972 Accountant 28 Sept. 381/3 Benefits..should be mentioned in reply to the question in the Inland Revenue Affidavit about gifts inter vivos.
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