intervolven.
rare.
An act of intervolving; intertwining.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] > coiling or winding together
entwinementa1670
entwining1674
convolving1713
intertwining1832
intertwinement1840
intervolution1850
intervolving1895
intervolve1898
1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 211 Of wise contrivance, deeply skilled In every intervolve of high and wide.
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intervolvev.
/ɪntəˈvɒlv/ 1. transitive. To wind or roll up (things) within each other; to wind or involve (something) within the coils of something else.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (transitive)] > coil or twist together
entertain1481
wreathe1553
wringle1572
weave1578
entwine1616
intertwine1641
encurl1647
betwine1661
intervolve1667
twine1679
interwind1693
implicate1826
interwreathe1866
thong1888
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 623 Mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolv'd, yet regular Then most, when most irregular they seem. View more context for this quotation
a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas vi, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 31 The sly serpent, in the golden flame Of his own volumes intervolved.
1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies (1875) xxvii. 205 Intercepting and intervolving him wherever he moves.
1884 Nonconformist & Independent 1 May 422 His panel of ‘A Wood Nymph’..in which a girl and the leafage of background are intervolved.
2. intransitive. To wind within each other.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (intransitive)] > coil or twist together
wreathe1631
entwine1665
intertwine1782
interwind1876
intervolve1886
1886 W. Alexander St. Augustine's Holiday 48 Now intervolving richly type by type, Reticulated sounds with sounds enlace.
Derivatives
interˈvolved adj.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > coiling or twisting together > coiled or twisted together
intricate1579
plait1583
interwreatheda1658
intervolved1667
intertwineda1680
convolved1713
braided1747
wreath-likea1770
woven1816
swirly1825
interwound1877
entrailing1885
1667 [see sense 1].
1745 E. Young Consolation 66 This exquisite Machine, with all its Wheels, Tho' intervolv'd, exact.
1858 G. MacDonald Phantastes iv. 38 Entwining every complexity of intervolved motion.
interˈvolving n. and adj.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] > coiling or winding together
entwinementa1670
entwining1674
convolving1713
intertwining1832
intertwinement1840
intervolution1850
intervolving1895
intervolve1898
the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > coiling or twisting together
entwining1737
interwinding1827
intertwining1842
convolving1862
intervolving1895
1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage I. v. 47 Trees, whose round intervolving roots grasped the yellow roadside soil.
1896 Academy 11 Jan. 27/3 This ‘intervolving’ of the landscape with the mind of a person is peculiarly characteristic of Mr. Meredith.
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