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inosculate

verb
/ɪˈnɒs.kjʊˌleɪt/

Etymology

First attested in 1672; from in- + osculate or its Latin etymon ōsculātus, perfect active participle of Latin osculor (“to kiss”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) from ōsculum (“a kiss”). The adjective is a back-formation from inosculation, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

  1. derived from osculor

Definitions

  1. To homogenize

    To homogenize; to make continuous.

  2. To open into.

    • The party left the town of Martaban on the 20th March; they passed two grassy and level islands just above the junction of the Gyein river with the main one. […] This inosculating river is about half the breadth of the Sanloon.

  3. To unite.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To intercommunicate

      To intercommunicate; to interjoin.

    2. Pertaining to or characterized by inosculation.

      • However, not all physicians of that age were convinced about the inosculate nature of these diseases, and debate continued unabated until the tragic self-experimentation of John Hunter in 1767.
      • The choice between normal, inverse, and inosculate strategies required some attention if only to emphasize the difference between the inosculate approach and much early work on numerical taxonomy.
      • This study proposes to trace the inosculate nature of the mask theme in Nietzsche's philosophy.

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