interspersev.
/ɪntəˈspəːs/ 1. transitive. To scatter or sprinkle between or among other things; to place here and there in the course of something; to mingle dispersedly or at intervals.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > among other things
interpose1602
intersow1614
intersperse1647
chequer1677
commix1847
intersprinkle1848
thread1884
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 218 You should doe well to intersperse among them some eucharisticall ejaculations and doxologies.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 315. ¶3 That particular Art which he [sc. Milton] has made use of in the interspersing of all those Graces of Poetry, which the Subject was capable of receiving.
1856 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 413 I like the way in which you have interspersed local traditions and stories.
2.
a. To furnish, adorn, or diversify (a thing) with other things scattered about, placed here and there, or mingled at intervals.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > among other things > with things interspersed
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interseam1589
interfuse1593
to strew out1631
chequer1677
punctuate1848
nugget1881
1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius .XI. Bks. Golden Asse xxii. f. 50v A man of midle age, hauing his bearde entersparsed with gray heares.
a1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 334 Various colourd Cinders..some like pitch..other metalique interspers'd with innumerable Pumices.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) I. xxiv. 687 The face of the country was interspersed with groves.
1796 C. Marshall Gardening (1813) xix. 378 Rich crimson grains interspersed with black berries.
1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians iv Harry had proceeded in his narrative after his own fashion, interspersing it with many youthful ejaculations.
b. Rarely said of the things intermingled.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > among other things > lie interspersed among
intersperse1796
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 172 A prodigious number of islands intersperse that mighty river.
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