▪ I. intertwist, v.
(ɪntəˈtwɪst)
[inter- 1 b.]
trans. To twist one within another; to twist together; to intertwine, intertangle.
| a 1659 [implied in intertwisted below]. 1797 Godwin Enquirer i. i. 1 In society the interests of individuals are intertwisted with each other. 1822 Lamb Elia Ser. i. Roast Pig, A bundle of virtues and vices, inexplicably intertwisted. 1865 G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming xxxiii. (1890) 289 Mrs. Sumfit then intertwisted her fingers. 1872 Black Adv. Phaeton xv, A long lane of silver, intertwisting itself with millions of gleaming lines. |
Hence interˈtwisted ppl. a.; interˈtwisting vbl. n. and ppl. a.; interˈtwistingly adv. (Webster, 1856).
| a 1659 Herle David's Song of 3 Parts in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xcv. 1 The third and last intertwisted string, or part in the musick. 1753 Hogarth Anal. Beauty x. 58 The more pleasing turns and intertwistings of the lines. 1797 E. M. Lomax Philanthrope 274 The poplar's intertwisting boughs. 1830 Fraser's Mag. I. 591 Not full of philosophical knottinesses and metaphysical intertwistings. 1847 Dickens Haunted M. i, The intertwisted chain of feelings and associations. |
▪ II. ˈintertwist, n.
[f. prec. vb.]
The act of intertwisting or fact of being intertwisted; an intertwisted formation or mass; a tangle, a maze.
| 1870 Contemp Rev. XIV. 428 A series of articles..which begin..with a strange intertwist of concession and invective. 1887 Blackmore Springhaven (ed. 4) III. vii. 100 Peering very sharply through an intertwist of suckers (for his shelter was a stool of hazel). |