interjacent
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Etymology
Origin of interjacent
1585–95; < Latin interjacent- (stem of interjacēns ) present participle of interjacēre to lie between. See inter-, adjacent
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In the Itinerary of Antoninus, the places, and their interjacent distances are stated as follows, Gaza, 22 M.P.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by John Lewis Burckhardt
His short visit of thirty days was employed in viewing the monuments of art and power which were scattered over the seven hills and the interjacent valleys.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Henry Hart Milman
It was one continuous jungle, except three interjacent glades of narrow limits, which gave us three breathing pauses in the dire task of jungle-traveling.
From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Joel Tyler Headley
The interjacent valley is of small hills, vallies, and plains, reddish, gravelly, and originally poor, but fertilized by art, and covered with corn, vines, olives, figs, almonds, mulberries, lucerne, and clover.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
At the sight of this vision he was much assured, and with swift marches overrunning all the interjacent places, takes Beroea, and making his head-quarters there, reduced the rest of the country by his commanders.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
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