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intershock, v. rare.|ɪntəˈʃɒk|
Also 7 enter-.
[f. inter- 1 b + shock v., in sense 1 after F. s'entrechoquer (1564 in Thierry).]
†1. trans. To strike or attack mutually. Obs.
1603Florio Montaigne i. xlvii. (1632) 153 When with vehemence they come to entershocke one another. 1605Daniel Philotas Wks. (1717) 372 What Discontentments will there still arise In such a Camp of Kings, to intershock Each others Greatness.
2. intr. To strike together, collide.
1650Earl of Monmouth tr. Senault's Man bec. Guilty 227 Pleasures do enter-shock, and always leave some of our senses in languishment. 1886Sheldon tr. Flaubert's Salammbo xiv. 395 The elephants' carcases, driven by the wind, intershocked, like an archipelago of black rocks floating on the water.
Hence interˈshocking vbl. n. So † ˈintershock n. [cf. obs. F. entrechoc]. rare—0.
1611Cotgr., Entrechoc, an intershocke; a mutuall or interchangeable rushing one vpon another. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 264 There was concerning it such an intershocking of opinions. 1706Phillips, Intershock, a clashing, or striking of one thing against another. |