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intervolve

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[in-ter-volv] / ˌɪn tərˈvɒlv /

verb (used with or without object)

intervolved, intervolving
  1. to roll, wind, or involve, one within another.


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Etymology

Origin of intervolve

1660–70; inter- + Latin volvere to roll; see revolve

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He was of wise contrivance, deeply skilled In every intervolve of high and wide -    Well fit to be her guide.

From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy

“Yonder starry sphere Of planets, and of fixed, in all her wheels, Resembles nearest mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular; Then most, when most irregular they seem.”

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

Within it also light intervolved veins were observable.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

And both together, inevitably seizing on beings who had rejected or lost divine knowledge, maintained a hold as fatal and invincible as that of the intervolved serpents of Laocoon.

From An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by John Foster

Villainously dirty walls surround a massive entrance-gate studded with nails and bands of iron, intervolved in artful designs.

From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Norman Douglas

The motions of the heavenly bodies are eccentric and intervolved, yet are most regular when they seem most lawless.

From Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker by M. (Meletios) Golden

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