intercommune, v. Now rare or Obs.
Forms: 4 entre-, 5 entercomune, 6 entre-, 7–8 intercommune.
[a. AF. entrecomuner: see intercommon v., and cf. commune v. The earlier stress was app. ˈcommune, in later examples prob. coˈmmune.]
1. intr. To have mutual communion; to hold discourse or conversation with each other or with another. (Cf. commune v. 6.)
| c 1374 Chaucer Troylus iv. 1326 (1354) The nature of þe pes mot nedes dryue, That men moste entrecomunen y-fere. 1387–8 T. Usk Test. Love i. v. (Skeat) l. 7 Raddeste thou neuer howe Paris of Troye and Helaine loued togider, and yet had they not entrecommuned of speche. 1623 T. Scot Highw. God 51 Let not man presume to intercommune with God. 1833 [see intercommuning vbl. n. 1]. |
† 2. To have intercourse, relations, or connexion, esp. in Sc. Law, with rebels or denounced persons.
| c 1374 [see intercommuning vbl. n. 1]. c 1449 Pecock Repr. i. x. 49 How fer..he schal strecche him silf..and not entercomune with eny other craft in conclusions and treuthis. 1555 W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. xi. 241 That parte of Arabia..wher it entrecommuneth with Jewry on the one side, and with Egipt on the other. a 1639 Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. vi. (1677) 376 The Noblemen..came in and made offer of their service, giving surety not to reset nor intercommune with the Rebels. 1681 Proclam. in Wodrow Hist. Ch. Scot. (1722) II. App. 78 That ye..prohibit and discharge all our subjects..to reset, supply, or intercommune with the said Earl. 1828 Col. Young in Bentham's Wks. (1843) XI. 8 They cannot eat or drink, intermarry and intercommune together. |
† 3. To participate in the use of the same pasture or the like. Obs.
| 1601 Holland Pliny I. 272 Their very concurrents..who would intercommune with them, and rob them of their prey. |
† 4. trans. Sc. To denounce by letters or writ of intercommuning; hence, to prohibit ‘intercommuning with’. (Cf. intercommon v. 5.) Obs.
| 168. in Somers Tracts I. 386 Not daring to appear, he is denunced and intercommuned. 1681 Lond. Gaz. No. 1648/4 Preachers..Excommunicated, Intercommuned, or Declared Fugitives upon a Process intented against the said Tennants. c 1730 Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (1818) II. 12 For atrocious crimes..the chief or laird was condemned in absence and intercommuned, as they call it, or outlawed. |
Hence intercommune n., an act of intercommuning; mutual communion or conversation.
| 1820 Coleridge Lett. to J. H. Green 14 Jan. (1895) 704, I must therefore defer our philosophical intercommune till the Sunday after. |