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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

But now attend to me and listen: The senses six and their six objects united cause the six kinds of knowledge, these three united bring forth contact, then the intervolved effects of recollection follow.

From Sacred Books of the East by Various

“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

Knowledge, in turn, proceeds from name and thing, the two are intervolved leaving no remnant; by some concurrent cause knowledge engenders name and thing, whilst by some other cause concurrent, name and thing engender knowledge.

From Sacred Books of the East by Various

A land of lights and shadows intervolved, A land of blazing sun and blackest night, A fortress armed, and guarded jealously, With every portal barred against the Light.

From Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse by John Oxenham

Her portion of shame was dreadful to bear; her bold avowal of love for Christian, her atrocious wording of hate intervolved to double disgrace.

From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman

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