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▪ I. intervolve, v.|ɪntəˈvɒlv|
[f. L. type *intervolvĕre, f. inter (inter- 1) + volvĕre to roll, wind; cf. involve, etc.]
1. trans. To wind or roll up (things) within each other; to wind or involve (something) within the coils of something else.
1667Milton P.L. v. 623 Mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolv'd, yet regular Then most, when most irregular they seem. 1820Shelley Witch Atl. vi, The sly serpent, in the golden flame Of his own volumes intervolved. 1849Miss Mulock Ogilvies xxvii. (1875) 205 Intercepting and intervolving him wherever he moves. 1884Nonconf. & Indep. 1 May 422 His panel of ‘A Wood Nymph’..in which a girl and the leafage of background are intervolved.
2. intr. To wind within each other.
1886W. Alexander St. Augustine's Holiday, etc. 48 Now intervolving richly type by type, Reticulated sounds with sounds enlace.
Hence interˈvolved ppl. a.; interˈvolving vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1667[see 1 above]. 1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 1322 This exquisite machine, with all its wheels, Tho' intervolv'd, exact. 1858G. Macdonald Phantastes iv. 38 Entwining every complexity of intervolved motion. 1896G. Meredith Amazing Marriage v. 47 Trees, whose round intervolving roots grasped the yellow roadside soil. 1896Academy 11 Jan. 27/3 This ‘intervolving’ of the landscape with the mind of a person is peculiarly characteristic of Mr. Meredith.
▪ II. ˈintervolve, n. rare.
[f. prec. vb.]
An act of intervolving; intertwining.
1898T. Hardy Wessex Poems 266 Of wise contrivance, deeply skilled In every intervolve of high and wide. |
