† interchainv.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To chain or link one to another.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > connect [verb (transitive)] > link together
link?a1412
enlink1560
in link1581
interchain1600
concatenate1622
interlink1622
enchain1642
necklace1702
leash1854
to link up1897
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 55 Two bosomes interchained [1623 interchanged] with an oath: So then two bosomes, and a single troth. View more context for this quotation
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xi. 247 Disorders and excesses..for the most part entertaine and enterchaine themselves the one with the other.
?1614 W. Drummond Song: It Autumne was in Poems This Moone, that Sunne, Those lesser Fires..Be but the same which vnder Saturnes Raigne, Did the serpenting Seasons interchaine.
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