inter se
Americannoun
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(italics) among or between themselves.
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Animal Husbandry. the mating of closely related animals to each other.
adverb
Etymology
Origin of inter se
First recorded in 1885–90, inter se is from Latin inter sē
Example Sentences
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The "inner college" will therefore merely stress the contacts inter se which students at large universities do not often enjoy.
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Further, the price-level is not, on Professor Fisher's own scheme, a factor in determining the relations of the prices of sugar and of wheat inter se.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
He did so in a publication entitled: "Farrago Confusanearum et inter se Dissidentium Opinionum de Coena Domini—Medley of Confused and Mutually Dissenting Opinions on the Lord's Supper, compiled from the books of the Sacramentarians," 1552.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente
The luminosities of this white light, of the reflected beam, and of the spectral colour are compared "inter se," and there are then sufficient data with which to make numerical registration.
From Colour Measurement and Mixture by W. de W. Abney
Calvin had previously directed attention to the circumstance that the following verse also is in favour of the translation by tollere: "Servare et tollere inter se opponit propheta."
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
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