▪ I. interspace, n.
(ˈɪntəspeɪs)
[inter- 2 b.]
1. A space between two things; intermediate or intervening space, interval.
| c 1420 Pallad on Husb. ii. 88 Yf diches plese, hem make, and thre feet depe..Thyn entre space in oon maner thou kepe. 1611 Florio, Intermezzo,..an interspace. 1658 Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus ii. 41 [The crown] was framed..with an intersection in the middle from the main crossing barres, and the interspaces, unto the frontal circle, continued by handsome network-plates. 1726 Leoni Alberti's Archit. II. 41/2 The Ancients..made a grate of brass..and filled up the interspaces of this grate..with a transparent sort of stone. 1817 Coleridge Zapolya iv. iii, Our messengers are posted With such short interspace, that fast as sound Can travel to us, we shall learn the event. 1866 Laing Preh. Rem. Caithn. 32 Consisting of concentric circular walls with cells or chambers in the interspaces between the walls. |
2. A space of time between two events, etc.; an interval of time.
| 1629 Maxwell tr. Herodian (1635) 186 The inter-space betwixt the past and present Celebrity, exceeded the longest Age of Men. a 1670 Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1693) 27 To gather up more at the Interspaces of Leisure, then others do at their Study. 1820 Blackw. Mag. VI. 379 Men..separated by the interspace of ages. 1879 Farrar St. Paul (1883) 575 During one of those little interspaces of repose and hope which occur in even the most persecuted lives. |
▪ II. interspace, v.
(ɪntəˈspeɪs)
[inter- 1.]
trans. To put a space or interval between; to occupy or fill the space or interval between.
| 1847 Bushnell Chr. Nurt. ii. iii. (1861) 282 Intelligent feeding, which is interspaced by rest. 1886 H. James Bostonians II. ii. xxi. 58 He bagan to interspace his visits considerably, and at last made them very rare. 1889 Horton Inspir. & bible vi. 143 It is necessary sometimes to interspace, if we may so term it, the Biblical records. |