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interchangeable, a. (adv. and n.)|ɪntəˈtʃeɪndʒəb(ə)l|
Also 5–7 enter-, 5–6 -chaungeable.
[a. OF. entrechangeable (Godef.): see interchange v. and -able. Mod.F. has interchangeable (1870 in Littré Suppl.) perh. from English.]
†1. Given, done, caused, or exhibited, by each side to the other; mutual, reciprocal. Obs.
c1450Mirour Saluacioun 2999 Eure [= ever] enterchaungable envy. 1542–3Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII, c. 18 Indentures interchangeable, sealed with the seales of suche parties. 1571Digges Pantom. iv. Defin. T j b, Proportion is a mutuall or enterchangeable relation of two magnitudes. 1594J. Dickenson Arisbas (1878) 83 Shedding teares, enterchaungeable tokens of their mutuall ioy. 1665G. Havers P. della Valle's Trav. E. India 77 They have great correspondence by interchangeable Ambassies and Presents.
†b. as adv.: Mutually; = interchangeably 1.
1465in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) II. 388 Ather of yhe pairtis hes geffyn till udiris, yair bodily aithis..and enterchangable, set to yair selis. 1496Newminster Cartul. (Surtees) 196 Y⊇ said Alex. and Robert enterchaungeable hath set to our seales. 1644Sir H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 128 Hereupon articles were drawn and interchangeable signed.
†2.
a. Of two or more things: Coming or following in place of each other; alternating, successive, varying. Obs.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. ii. (1634) 269 Therefore of necessity distrust and good hope must by enterchangeable courses reigne in thy minde. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 26 They have their Consuls, Tribunes, Pretors..and other interchangeable offices, as sometimes had Rome. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iv. 181 Darknesse and light hold interchangeable dominions, and alternately rule the seminal state of things. 1783W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. I., Interchangeable vicissitudes of sunshine and rain.
†b. Of one thing: Subject to change from one condition, state, etc. to another; changeable. Obs.
1573–80Baret Alv. I 203 The Interchangeable course of pleasure, laboris ac voluptatis vicissitudo. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 79 Very beautifull to behold, by reason of the variable and interchangeable skin, being full of spots. 1749F. Smith Voy. Disc. II. 43 Interchangeable Weather, from one Day excessive hot..changing to another Day intensely Cold.
3. Of two things: Capable of being put or used in the place of each other; admitting an exchange of place or function. Also, of one thing: That may change places with some other thing.
a1569A. Kingsmill Confl. Satan (1578) 38 Thou art saved, thou art delivered, for these are interchangeable wordes, one self-same in speach. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 282 Personality is what makes a man to be himself, can never be divested..nor is interchangeable with that of any other creature. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 205/1 In this process heat and time are, to a certain extent, interchangeable commodities. 1888Glasgow Even. Times 27 Aug. 4/2 A convertible driving phaeton, fitted with interchangeable seats. 1897F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) LXIV. 105/2 Not one..recognizes it [for the nonce] as interchangeable with ‘for the occasion’.
b. Capable of being exchanged or bartered.
1826T. Tooke State of Currency 87 Commodities which are interchangeable with other countries.
c. as n. in pl.
1823Lamb Lett. xii. to Wordsworth 111 A, B and C make a party. A dies. B not only loses A, but all A's part in C. C loses A's part in B, and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables. |