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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 Hardy, Thomas

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 Oxenham, John

“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 Hitchcock, Edward

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 Housman, Clemence

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 Golden, M. (Meletios)

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 Foster, John

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