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intersperse, v.|ɪntəˈspɜːs|
Also 6 entersparse.
[f. L. interspers-, ppl. stem of *interspergĕre (found only in pa. pple. interspersus), f. inter between + spargĕre to scatter, sprinkle.]
1. trans. To scatter or sprinkle between or among other things; to place here and there in the course of something; to mingle dispersedly or at intervals.
c1645Howell Lett. ii. lxix. (1655) II. 100 You should do well to intersperse among them some eucharistical ejaculations and doxologies. 1712Addison Spect. No. 315 ⁋3 That particular Art which he [Milton] has made use of in the interspersing of all those Graces of Poetry, which the Subject was capable of receiving. 1856Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 413, I like the way in which you have interspersed local traditions and stories.
2. To furnish, adorn, or diversify (a thing) with other things scattered about, placed here and there, or mingled at intervals.
1566W. Adlington Apuleius 51 A man of midle age hauing his bearde entersparsed with gray heares. 1645Evelyn Diary 7 Feb., Various colour'd cinders..some like pitch..other metaliq, interspers'd with innumerable pumices. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxiv. (1869) I. 687 The face of the country was interspersed with groves. 1796C. Marshall Garden. xix. (1813) 378 Rich crimson grains interspersed with black berries. 1858Thackeray Virgin. iv, Harry had proceeded in his narrative after his own fashion, interspersing it with many youthful ejaculations.
b. Rarely said of the things intermingled.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 172 A prodigious number of islands intersperse that mighty river. |