inweaveenweavev.
/ɪnˈwiːv/ 1. transitive. To weave in; to weave (threads or materials) in, so as to form a web or tissue; to weave (things) together, or one thing with another; to interweave. Also figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > intertwine or interweave [verb (transitive)]
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the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > intertwine or interweave [verb (transitive)] > with something
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1578 J. Banister Hist. Man v. f. 69v This is with two kindes of Fibres intertexed, or enwouen.
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila xii. xv. 221 When two enweav'd are in one high Desire, They feel like Angels, mutuall Fire.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iii. 7/2 A living link in that Tissue of History, which inweaves all Being.
1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 32 All our moral feelings are so inwoven with our intellectual powers, that [etc.].
a1859 J. A. James in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1882) VI. Ps. cxix. 126 Infidelity..has endeavoured to enweave itself with science.
1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xxxv. 89 The newly-lit lamps on the quay, and the evening glow shining over the river, inwove their harmonious rays as the warp and woof of one lustrous tissue.
2.
a. To insert or introduce (a thread, pattern, or material) into a fabric which is being woven; to insert (one thing) in or into another by weaving in or entwining. Const. in, into (among, through).
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > by interweaving
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > weave > weave in
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the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > intertwine or interweave [verb (transitive)] > insert by
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1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 266 Tua lynes..Wouen in threid of golde, to quhilkes Jngeniouslie ar coupled the Lillies inwouen, inwounde, and drawin throuch, as it war.
1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. vi. 305 The Royal Standard, wherin the figure of a man fighting was inwov'n with gold and pretious Stones.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 513 In his deep fleece my grasping hands I lock, And fast beneath in woolly curls inwove There cling implicite.
1797 T. Park Sonnets 16 On every leaf enweave a druid-spell.
1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) Introd. p. xiv Another corslet had..a vast number of figures and animals inwoven into its fabric.
b. figurative with reference to immaterial things, words, incidents in a story, etc.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > by interweaving > specifically an immaterial thing
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a1628 F. Greville Certaine Wks. i. (1633) 66 Closely to be inweau'd in euery heart.
a1656 J. Ussher Power of Princes (1683) ii. 160 Cæsar heretofore did so embosom and enweaue himselfe into the Commonwealth.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 219 To inweave in a poem of the loftiest style..such minute matters of fact.
1869 E. M. Goulburn Pursuit of Holiness v. 43 A study which inweaves the Word into the daily life of the Christian.
3. To combine, furnish, decorate, etc. with something inserted or entwined.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > by interweaving > furnish with something so inserted
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1591 E. Spenser Muiopotmos in Complaints sig. V4 A faire border wrought of sundrie flowres, Enwouen with an Yvie winding trayle.
1717 in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Metamorphoses Arachne 209 Festoons of flow'rs inwove with ivy shine.
1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings II. xlvii. 71 Gauze-like fabrics inwoven with flowers of silver.
4. To form by weaving or plaiting. rare.
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the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > intertwine or interweave [verb (transitive)] > form by
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1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 352 Down they cast Thir Crowns inwove with Amarant and Gold. View more context for this quotation
1864 J. M. Neale Seatonian Poems 21 The Crown inwove with twisted Thorn.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid v in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 235 Three winners receive Prizes beyond, and of olive pale their garlands inweave.
Derivatives
inˈweavement n. (also enˈweavement) rare
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the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [noun]
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1842 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 9 606 Mind with mind it links in long Enweavement round the world.
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