intersert
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin intersertus, past participle of interserere (“to intersert”), from inter (“between”) + serere (“to join, weave”).
Verb[edit]
intersert (third-person singular simple present interserts, present participle interserting, simple past and past participle interserted)
- (obsolete, transitive) To put in between other things; to insert.
- 1614, Edward Brerewood, Enquiries Touching the Diversity of Languages and Religions:
- If I may […] intersert a short speculation, the depth of the sea […] is determined in Pliny to be fifteen furlongs.
References[edit]
- “intersert”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.