intersert

intersert

English

Etymology

From Latin intersertus, past participle of interserere (“to intersert”), from inter (“between”) + serere (“to join, weave”).

Verb

intersert (third-person singular simple present interserts, present participle interserting, simple past and past participle interserted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To put in between other things; to insert.
   • 1614, Edward Brerewood, Enquiries Touching the Diversity of Languages and Religions

     If I may […] intersert a short speculation, the depth of the sea […] is determined in Pliny to be fifteen furlongs.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for intersert in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)