† interˈsertion Obs.
[n. of action from L. interserĕre: see intersert v.]
The action of ‘interserting’; that which is ‘interserted’; interpolation.
| 1626 Jackson Creed viii. xxvii. §5 By a voluntary intersertion of the Prophet Jeremiah his name by some bold transcriber. 1641 Milton Animadv. ii. Wks. 1738 I. 84 They have some intersertions which are plainly spurious. 1658 W. Burton Itin. Anton. 193 That intersertion of P in many Latine words..as in sumpsit, prompsit. 1771 Sheridan tr. Aristœnetus' Love Ep. iii. (1874) 457 note, What intersertions there may be, have been before apologized for. |