interwovenadj.
/ɪntəˈwəʊv(ə)n/ Woven together; interlaced; intricately mingled or entangled.
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the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [adjective] > intertwined or interwoven
writhenOE
twinedc1300
locked1488
wreathena1500
plait1529
implicatec1540
context?1541
twisted1548
weaved1552
wreathed?1552
texed1572
well-woven1578
woven1590
interlaced1593
entrailed1599
entest1608
implicit1608
folden1612
inextricate?1615
intertissueda1616
complicatea1626
enwreathed1631
interwoven1642
inwoven1667
intertwineda1680
plectilea1682
well-wove1690
implicated1761
osiered1820
inwrought1824
complected1828
impleached1829
internetted1849
enlaced1851
threaded1853
interknit1885
interwrought1895
pleached1896
interweaved1898
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. Bv Farre more fine, Then interwoven silk with gold or silver twine.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 6 Another Island..whose interwoven barren Mountains are as impossibly exprest as Stoneheng numbred.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 292 Capsule..composed of interwoven fibres.
1818 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India (1858) I. 347 He has..printed the interwoven expressions of the commentator in italics.
1859 C. Kingsley Misc. (1860) I. 144 Its lacework of interwoven light and shade.
Derivatives
interˈwovenly adv. rare
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the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [adverb]
fretwise1423
interlacedlya1641
interwovenly1693
interweavingly1820
intertwiningly1823
intertwistingly-
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. l. 401 The Fingers of both her hands interwovenly clenched together.
1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. iii. 41 Amply-flowing, vivacious, interwovenly the brook, the stream, the torrent.
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adj.1642