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Webster 1913 Edition
Interpolate
In-ter′po-late
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Interpolated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Interpolating
.] [L. ]
interpolatus
, p. p. of interpolare
to form anew, to interpolate, fr. interpolus
, interpolis
, falsified, vamped up, polished up; inter
between + polire
to polish. See Polish
, Verb.
T.
1.
To renew; to carry on with intermission.
[Obs.]
Motion . . . partly continued and unintermitted, . . . partly
interpolated
and interrupted. Sir M. Hale.
2.
To alter or corrupt by the insertion of new or foreign matter; especially, to change, as a book or text, by the insertion of matter that is new, or foreign to the purpose of the author.
How strangely Ignatius is mangled and
interpolated
, you may see by the vast difference of all copies and editions. Bp. Barlow.
The Athenians were put in possession of Salamis by another law, which was cited by Solon, or, as some think,
interpolated
by him for that purpose. Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Interpolate
IN'TERPOLATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To renew; to begin again; to carry on with intermission; as a succession of interpolated motions.2.
To foist in; to insert, as a spurious word or passage in a manuscript or book; to add a spurious word or passage to the original. The Athenians were put in possession of Salamis by another law which was cited by Solon, or as some think, interpolated by him for that purpose.