▪ I. interloping, vbl. n.
(-ˈləʊpɪŋ)
[f. interlope v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. interlope; esp. unauthorized trading within the sphere of action of a chartered company.
| 1615 [see interlope v.]. 1641 Milton Animadv. ii. Wks. (1851) 206 You should have given so much honour then to the word preach't, as to have left it to Gods working without the interloping of a Liturgy baited for them to bite at. 1698 Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 89 Not only the Jews..but other monied Gentlemen in England might be tempted to set up for Interloping. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. xxxiii. 15, I, having three or four large Ships at Bengal, was reckoned a Criminal guilty of that unpardonable Sin of Interlopping. 1868 Rogers Pol. Econ. ix. (1876) 82 Of course these monopolists could not prevent smuggling, or, as the East India Company called it, ‘interloping’. |
| attrib. 1658–9 Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 107 The question now is, whether the interloping question shall prevail. 1675 Temple Let. Mercht. Advent. 26 Mar., Wks. 1731 II. 331 The Liberty or Connivance given..to the interloping Trade. 1767 T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. II. i. 116 A ship fitted out..in the interloping trade. |
▪ II. interloping, ppl. a.
(-ˈləʊpɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That interlopes, or is an interloper.
| 1603–27 Horsey Trav. (Hakl. Soc.) 228, I procured unto the Company of merchants the fredom of all their howses in Musco [etc.]... All the interlopinge merchants tradinge in those countries without leave of the Company, beinge 29, wear delivered into my handes to transport into England. 1633 Prynne Histriom. ii. 995, I have..compleatly finished this my Histrio-Mastix..(as well as..other Interloping Imployments would permit). 1664 Power Exp. Philos. i. 60 The whole Heart with both Auricles and both Ventricles, the one manifestly preceding the pulse of the other..and without any interloping perisystole at all. 1753 Smollett Ct. Fathom (1784) 169/2 The quack; who..had long looked upon him in the odious light of an interloping rival. 1871 B. Taylor Faust (1875) II. ii. iii. 134 Enchaining The interloping witch's son. 1885 Pall Mall G. 23 July 10/2 We shall oppose you in Parliament because we think these interloping lines are an evil generally. |