intercoursen.

Brit.

/ˈɪntəkɔːs/, U.S.

/ˈɪn(t)ərˌkɔrs/

Forms: Also Middle English–1600s entercourse, (1500s entercours).

Etymology: < Old French entrecours exchange, commerce (Godefroy; in Anglo-Norman also -course ), < entrecorre to run between < Latin intercurrĕre : see intercur v., course n. Compare the Latin ablative intercursu ‘by intervention’, and medieval Latin intercursus.

1. Communication to and fro between countries, etc.; mutual dealings between the inhabitants of different localities. In early use exclusively with reference to trade, and hence sometimes = commerce, traffic; now in more general sense.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > [noun]

mongingOE

cheapinga1000

cheapOE

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merchandisea1300

market-making1340

merchandyc1350

corseriec1380

chafferinga1382

need-doinga1382

changea1387

chapmanhoodc1386

cossery?a1400

bargaining1401

merchandisinga1425

merchandrya1450

intercourse1473

business1478

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the feat of merchandisec1503

market1525

trade1549

marting1553

contractation1555

trading1556

merchantryc1560

marketing1561

mart1562

trafficking1570

contraction1582

tract1582

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commerce1587

chafferya1599

negotiation1601

intertraffica1603

traffic1603

commercery1604

intertrading1606

correspondence1607

mercature1611

correspondency1613

coss?1635

negotiating1640

dealing1691

chapmanship1727

merchanting1883

intertrade1915

society > society and the community > social relations > [noun] > communication or mutual dealings between countries

intercourse1473

α.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xliiii She..besought the kynge this his Marchauntes myght vse their Entercourse into Flaundres as they before tymes had done.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lx^v Straungiers..take the lyuinge from all the artificers, and the entercourse from all merchauntes.

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxvii. 211 God hath diuided his blessings, that..one Countrey might haue entercourse with an other.

1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 57 They had free entercourse of trade one with another.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. iv. 23 Their vicinitie, and mutual entercourses, made the Jews passe under their neighbors names.

β. 1473 Rolls Parl. VI. 65/1 The..Company..have had and used free and frendely communication and intercurse of Marchaundise with his Subgetts.1585 W. Harborne Let. 30 Mar. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1599) II. i. 178 He wil not but maintaine y^e faith promised her, & the intercourse in due force.1656 T. Burton Diary (1828) I. 181 The intercourse merchants are many of them traders into the Spanish countries, which are your enemies.1656 T. Burton Diary (1828) I. 181 Whether the city or the merchants of the intercourse should pay it.1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 405 The almost innumerable means of intercourse now introduced into most parts of this island.1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 40 It is clear that the Ohio mound-builders had commercial intercourse with the natives of distant regions.

a. Social communication between individuals; frequent and habitual contact in conversation and action; dealings.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > [noun]

conversationc1340

dolea1400

repairc1425

fellowshipc1450

frequentation?1520

communion1529

society1531

commerce1537

commercement1537

society1538

trade1555

intercourse1557

company1576

intercommunication1586

interdeal1591

entertain1602

consort1607

entregent1607

quarter1608

commercing1610

converse1610

trucka1625

congress1628

socialty1638

frequency1642

socialitya1649

socialness1727

intercommuniona1761

social life1812

dialogue1890

discourse1963

1557 W. Baldwin & T. Palfreyman Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) iii. ii. f. 80^v Men, betwene whome happeneth to be any entercourse or familiaritie.

1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie Introd. sig. B5 That civill entercourse, and mutuall society which the nature of Mankind doth most delight in.

a1714 Bp G. Burnet Hist. Reformation I. ii. 244 For justifying himself, he [Sir Thomas More] wrote a full account of all the intercourse he had with the Nun and her complices.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 160. ⁋6 Those with whom time and intercourse have made us familiar.

1852 C. Dickens Let. 5 Aug. (1988) VI. 734 We looked forward to years of unchanged intercourse.

b. With of (= in respect of, as regards).

ΚΠ

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 163 Amongst all which was peace, but no intercourse of marriages in differing Sects.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 174 [They] have friendly and mutuall entercourse of affections, actions, customes, habits.

c. plural. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xxxvi. 220 Disingaging myself from all Intercourses that have given you Uneasiness.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 311 Their former Intercourses with the Israelites.

1804 A. Ranken Hist. France III. i. v. 75 New scenes, objects and intercourses enlarged his views.

1855 H. Martineau Autobiogr. (1877) II. 446 My hours are now best spent in affectionate intercourses.

d. Sexual connection.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse

ymonec950

moneOE

meanc1175

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swivinga1300

couplec1320

companyc1330

fellowred1340

the service of Venusc1350

miskissinga1387

fellowshipc1390

meddlinga1398

carnal knowinga1400

flesha1400

knowledgea1400

knowledginga1400

japec1400

commoning?c1425

commixtionc1429

itc1440

communicationc1450

couplingc1475

mellingc1480

carnality1483

copulation1483

mixturea1500

Venus act?1507

Venus exercise?1507

Venus play?1507

Venus work?1507

conversation?c1510

flesh-company1522

act?1532

carnal knowledge1532

occupying?1544

congression1546

soil1555

conjunction1567

fucking1568

rem in re1568

commixture1573

coiture1574

shaking of the sheets?1577

cohabitation1579

bedding1589

congress1589

union1598

embrace1599

making-outa1601

rutting1600

noddy1602

poop-noddy1606

conversinga1610

carnal confederacy1610

wapping1610

businessa1612

coition1615

doinga1616

amation1623

commerce1624

hot cocklesa1627

other thing1628

buck1632

act of love1638

commistion1658

subagitation1658

cuntc1664

coit1671

intimacy1676

the last favour1676

quiffing1686

old hat1697

correspondence1698

frigging1708

Moll Peatley1711

coitus1713

sexual intercourse1753

shagging1772

connection1791

intercourse1803

interunion1822

greens1846

tail1846

copula1864

poking1864

fuckeea1866

sex relation1871

wantonizing1884

belly-flopping1893

twatting1893

jelly roll1895

mattress-jig1896

sex1900

screwing1904

jazz1918

zig-zig1918

other1922

booty1926

pigmeat1926

jazzing1927

poontang1927

relations1927

whoopee1928

nookie1930

hump1931

jig-a-jig1932

homework1933

quickie1933

nasty1934

jig-jig1935

crumpet1936

pussy1937

Sir Berkeley1937

pom-pom1945

poon1947

charvering1954

mollocking1959

leg1967

rumpy-pumpy1968

shafting1971

home plate1972

pata-pata1977

bonking1985

legover1985

knobbing1986

rumpo1986

fanny1993

1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) i. ii. 12 An illicit intercourse between the sexes.

1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 143 Propagated by promiscuous intercourse.

1919 M. K. Bradby Psycho-anal. iii. ix. 118 Witches were examined during their trials for evidence of their fleshly intercourse with the devil.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 389 He..did not scruple..to attempt illicit intercourse with a female domestic.

1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex i. 6 The incidence of extra-marital intercourse is great.

1973 S. Fisher Female Orgasm i. 26 Some of the decline in intercourse frequency and responsiveness..may be caused by the..physiological decline of their husbands.

3. Communion between man and that which is spiritual or unseen.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > [noun] > communion between man and spiritual things

intercourse1561

converse1668

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. ii. f. 145 He suffered other nations to walke in vanitie, as though they had not any entercourse or any thing to do with him.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxiii. 52 His heauenly inspirations and our holie desires are as so many Angels of entercourse and commerce betweene God and vs.

1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 354 The sweet entercourse and communion betwixt God, and his Church.

1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions Introd. 2 It does not follow..that there is no Intercourse or Communication between the World of Spirits, and the World we live in.

1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 605 A devout intercourse with God.

†4. Communication of ideas; discourse, conversation, discussion. Obsolete (except as included in sense 2).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun]

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talec1000

speaka1300

reasonc1300

speakinga1325

counsela1350

intercommuningc1374

dalliancec1400

communication1419

communancec1449

collocutiona1464

parlour?c1475

sermocination1514

commona1529

dialogue?1533

interlocutiona1534

discourse1545

discoursing1550

conference1565

purposea1572

talk1572

interspeech1579

conversationa1586

devising1586

intercourse1596

intercommunication1603

eclogue1604

commercing1610

communion1614

negocea1617

alloquy1623

confariation1652

gob1681

gab1761

commune1814

colloquy1817

conversing1884

cross-talk1887

bull session1920

rap1957

1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 468 After some entercourses, and when they had agreed vpon a plat of their businesse.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xl. 250/1 After much inter-course, and many intreaties passed, at length..he accepted their offer.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 259 in Justice Vindicated To these may be added a profound Judgement in the affaires both of Church & State, how much it appeared in the former, appears in the entercourse between him and Master Hinderson.

1692 J. Ray Misc. Disc. Dissolution World 38 This Tradition..which they could not receive from the Greek Philosophers or Poets, with whom they had no entercourse.

†5.

a. Intercommunication between things or parts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > contiguity > communicating (of things)

incurse1578

intercourse1626

commerce1634

correspondence1698

intercommunication1866

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [noun] > uninterrupted connection of parts > intercommunication

intercourse1626

commerce1634

correspondence1698

intercommunication1866

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §700 We see plainly what an Intercourse there is between the Teeth, and the Organ of the Hearing, by the taking of the end of a Bow between the Teeth, and striking upon the String.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 95 This Caspian Sea, which..has no commerce or entercourse with any Sea, except..it be subterranean.

1661 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mech. (1682) i. v. 12 When the Mercurial Cylinder..has at the other end of it Air, kept from any Entercourse with the Atmosphere.

1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 126 Those [rivers] that have a more immediate intercourse with the sea, participate of its influences, and have the same vicissitudes.

†b. A means or way of intercommunication.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > contiguity > communicating (of things) > a means of

intercourse1660

communication?a1425

intercourse1660

1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xli. 333 We thought fit to open..an intercourse betwixt the Air in the Receiver, and that without it.

1783 Ann. Reg. 1781 Hist. Europe 14/1 Smaller armed vessels..master of all the channels and intercourses, as well as of the adjoining sea.

†6. Passage in; entrance. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > power, right, or opportunity of entrance

entryc1330

accessc1384

enteringc1436

entress1447

open door1526

entrance?1552

intercourse1598

open access1602

accession1608

entrée1746

1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 177 A dore of entercourse into this garden.

1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 291 Where both the ayr & the Sun have free entercourse.

7. Continuous interchange or exchange of (letters, etc.). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > exchange > [noun]

change?c1225

changingc1350

interchangingc1374

exchangec1384

permutationa1398

commutation1496

achange1530

chopping and changing1548

interchange1548

exchanging1553

promutation1560

intercourse1576

counterchange1579

chopping1581

counter-cambio?1592

interchangementa1616

commerce1631

swapping1695

barter1819

counterchanging1881

switching1904

va-et-vient1919

switch-around1981

1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 130 I will not write..what I thinke toucheing the weale publique..because the inter~course of suche letters are daungerous.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 238 This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles.

1729 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. (ed. 2) ix. 159 The first Offence..becomes the Occasion of entring into a long Intercourse of ill Offices.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. i. 344 An active intercourse of letters and messengers ensued.

1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I II. ii. 54 These letters were afterwards followed by an intercourse of civilities.

†8. Interchange of one thing with another; alternation. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > alternation > [noun]

interchangingc1374

alternationc1443

alternement1483

interchange1559

intercourse1571

reciprocation1586

circulation1597

counterchange1602

interchangeableness1606

subalternation1616

vicissitude1624

alternity1646

alternacy1650

alternative1732

variegation1781

fluctuation1802

alternance1826

up and down1855

intermittence1860

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xix. 2) The orderly intercourse of dayes and nightes so fitly succeding.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ii. viii. 137 Yet had the Kingdome of Judah their entercourses of corruption and reformation, according as they had good or bad kings.

1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia i. 17 The entercourses Of whose mixt fortunes taught her tender heart To feele the selfe same ioy, the selfe same smart.

1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 105 Birds like watchful clocks the noiseless Date, And intercourse of times divide.

†a. The fact of coming between or intervening; intervention; an intervening course or space; an interval. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun]

interventure1578

intercourse1589

intercession1605

interjacency1646

interventiona1650

interveniency1660

interjacence1864

betweenness1892

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event > intervening occurrence

intercourse1589

intercurrence1603

intercurrency1670

intervention1676

1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie Ep. Ded. sig. ¶iiii But from such entercourse of excuse, let my vnschooled indignities, conuert themselues to your courtesie.

1624 R. Bellings Sixth Bk. Arcadia sig. B2^v The Arcadian Plaines, beautified by the intercourse of manie Forrests.

1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. 7 Three courses of meate; but betweene them..there was an entercourse, for the King accused a man of Treason, and cut off his head, and returned againe.

†b. Intervention on the part of some agent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [noun]

interventionc1425

interposition1462

striking1530

intercourse1586

entermise1600

intervening1605

intermitter1611

interposal1625

interveniencea1627

intermission1628

interveniency1660

1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 67 By the intercourse of the Kinges royall assent adhibited by the hande of his heralde.

1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. To Rdr. 6 [It] is effected immediately by the..arme of God, without the intercourse of naturall causes.

1646 J. Gregory Notes & Observ. xxiv. 114 If we betake our selves to this other way, one onely entercourse of Omnipotency will serve the turne.

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单词	intercourse
释义	intercoursen. Brit. /ˈɪntəkɔːs/, U.S. /ˈɪn(t)ərˌkɔrs/ Forms: Also Middle English–1600s entercourse, (1500s entercours). Etymology: < Old French entrecours exchange, commerce (Godefroy; in Anglo-Norman also -course ), < entrecorre to run between < Latin intercurrĕre : see intercur v., course n. Compare the Latin ablative intercursu ‘by intervention’, and medieval Latin intercursus. 1. Communication to and fro between countries, etc.; mutual dealings between the inhabitants of different localities. In early use exclusively with reference to trade, and hence sometimes = commerce, traffic; now in more general sense. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > [noun] mongingOE cheapinga1000 cheapOE chaffer?c1225 merchandisea1300 market-making1340 merchandyc1350 corseriec1380 chafferinga1382 need-doinga1382 changea1387 chapmanhoodc1386 cossery?a1400 bargaining1401 merchandisinga1425 merchandrya1450 intercourse1473 business1478 chapmanry1483 the feat of merchandisec1503 market1525 trade1549 marting1553 contractation1555 trading1556 merchantryc1560 marketing1561 mart1562 trafficking1570 contraction1582 tract1582 nundination1586 commerce1587 chafferya1599 negotiation1601 intertraffica1603 traffic1603 commercery1604 intertrading1606 correspondence1607 mercature1611 correspondency1613 coss?1635 negotiating1640 dealing1691 chapmanship1727 merchanting1883 intertrade1915 society > society and the community > social relations > [noun] > communication or mutual dealings between countries intercourse1473 α. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xliiii She..besought the kynge this his Marchauntes myght vse their Entercourse into Flaundres as they before tymes had done. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lx^v Straungiers..take the lyuinge from all the artificers, and the entercourse from all merchauntes. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxvii. 211 God hath diuided his blessings, that..one Countrey might haue entercourse with an other. 1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 57 They had free entercourse of trade one with another. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. iv. 23 Their vicinitie, and mutual entercourses, made the Jews passe under their neighbors names. β. 1473 Rolls Parl. VI. 65/1 The..Company..have had and used free and frendely communication and intercurse of Marchaundise with his Subgetts.1585 W. Harborne Let. 30 Mar. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1599) II. i. 178 He wil not but maintaine y^e faith promised her, & the intercourse in due force.1656 T. Burton Diary (1828) I. 181 The intercourse merchants are many of them traders into the Spanish countries, which are your enemies.1656 T. Burton Diary (1828) I. 181 Whether the city or the merchants of the intercourse should pay it.1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 405 The almost innumerable means of intercourse now introduced into most parts of this island.1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 40 It is clear that the Ohio mound-builders had commercial intercourse with the natives of distant regions. 2. a. Social communication between individuals; frequent and habitual contact in conversation and action; dealings. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > [noun] conversationc1340 dolea1400 repairc1425 fellowshipc1450 frequentation?1520 communion1529 society1531 commerce1537 commercement1537 society1538 trade1555 intercourse1557 company1576 intercommunication1586 interdeal1591 entertain1602 consort1607 entregent1607 quarter1608 commercing1610 converse1610 trucka1625 congress1628 socialty1638 frequency1642 socialitya1649 socialness1727 intercommuniona1761 social life1812 dialogue1890 discourse1963 1557 W. Baldwin & T. Palfreyman Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) iii. ii. f. 80^v Men, betwene whome happeneth to be any entercourse or familiaritie. 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie Introd. sig. B5 That civill entercourse, and mutuall society which the nature of Mankind doth most delight in. a1714 Bp G. Burnet Hist. Reformation I. ii. 244 For justifying himself, he [Sir Thomas More] wrote a full account of all the intercourse he had with the Nun and her complices. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 160. ⁋6 Those with whom time and intercourse have made us familiar. 1852 C. Dickens Let. 5 Aug. (1988) VI. 734 We looked forward to years of unchanged intercourse. b. With of (= in respect of, as regards). ΚΠ 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 163 Amongst all which was peace, but no intercourse of marriages in differing Sects. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 174 [They] have friendly and mutuall entercourse of affections, actions, customes, habits. c. plural. Now rare. ΚΠ 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xxxvi. 220 Disingaging myself from all Intercourses that have given you Uneasiness. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 311 Their former Intercourses with the Israelites. 1804 A. Ranken Hist. France III. i. v. 75 New scenes, objects and intercourses enlarged his views. 1855 H. Martineau Autobiogr. (1877) II. 446 My hours are now best spent in affectionate intercourses. d. Sexual connection. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse ymonec950 moneOE meanc1175 manredc1275 swivinga1300 couplec1320 companyc1330 fellowred1340 the service of Venusc1350 miskissinga1387 fellowshipc1390 meddlinga1398 carnal knowinga1400 flesha1400 knowledgea1400 knowledginga1400 japec1400 commoning?c1425 commixtionc1429 itc1440 communicationc1450 couplingc1475 mellingc1480 carnality1483 copulation1483 mixturea1500 Venus act?1507 Venus exercise?1507 Venus play?1507 Venus work?1507 conversation?c1510 flesh-company1522 act?1532 carnal knowledge1532 occupying?1544 congression1546 soil1555 conjunction1567 fucking1568 rem in re1568 commixture1573 coiture1574 shaking of the sheets?1577 cohabitation1579 bedding1589 congress1589 union1598 embrace1599 making-outa1601 rutting1600 noddy1602 poop-noddy1606 conversinga1610 carnal confederacy1610 wapping1610 businessa1612 coition1615 doinga1616 amation1623 commerce1624 hot cocklesa1627 other thing1628 buck1632 act of love1638 commistion1658 subagitation1658 cuntc1664 coit1671 intimacy1676 the last favour1676 quiffing1686 old hat1697 correspondence1698 frigging1708 Moll Peatley1711 coitus1713 sexual intercourse1753 shagging1772 connection1791 intercourse1803 interunion1822 greens1846 tail1846 copula1864 poking1864 fuckeea1866 sex relation1871 wantonizing1884 belly-flopping1893 twatting1893 jelly roll1895 mattress-jig1896 sex1900 screwing1904 jazz1918 zig-zig1918 other1922 booty1926 pigmeat1926 jazzing1927 poontang1927 relations1927 whoopee1928 nookie1930 hump1931 jig-a-jig1932 homework1933 quickie1933 nasty1934 jig-jig1935 crumpet1936 pussy1937 Sir Berkeley1937 pom-pom1945 poon1947 charvering1954 mollocking1959 leg1967 rumpy-pumpy1968 shafting1971 home plate1972 pata-pata1977 bonking1985 legover1985 knobbing1986 rumpo1986 fanny1993 1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) i. ii. 12 An illicit intercourse between the sexes. 1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 143 Propagated by promiscuous intercourse. 1919 M. K. Bradby Psycho-anal. iii. ix. 118 Witches were examined during their trials for evidence of their fleshly intercourse with the devil. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 389 He..did not scruple..to attempt illicit intercourse with a female domestic. 1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex i. 6 The incidence of extra-marital intercourse is great. 1973 S. Fisher Female Orgasm i. 26 Some of the decline in intercourse frequency and responsiveness..may be caused by the..physiological decline of their husbands. 3. Communion between man and that which is spiritual or unseen. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > [noun] > communion between man and spiritual things intercourse1561 converse1668 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. ii. f. 145 He suffered other nations to walke in vanitie, as though they had not any entercourse or any thing to do with him. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxiii. 52 His heauenly inspirations and our holie desires are as so many Angels of entercourse and commerce betweene God and vs. 1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 354 The sweet entercourse and communion betwixt God, and his Church. 1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions Introd. 2 It does not follow..that there is no Intercourse or Communication between the World of Spirits, and the World we live in. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 605 A devout intercourse with God. †4. Communication of ideas; discourse, conversation, discussion. Obsolete (except as included in sense 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] speechc900 talec1000 speaka1300 reasonc1300 speakinga1325 counsela1350 intercommuningc1374 dalliancec1400 communication1419 communancec1449 collocutiona1464 parlour?c1475 sermocination1514 commona1529 dialogue?1533 interlocutiona1534 discourse1545 discoursing1550 conference1565 purposea1572 talk1572 interspeech1579 conversationa1586 devising1586 intercourse1596 intercommunication1603 eclogue1604 commercing1610 communion1614 negocea1617 alloquy1623 confariation1652 gob1681 gab1761 commune1814 colloquy1817 conversing1884 cross-talk1887 bull session1920 rap1957 1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 468 After some entercourses, and when they had agreed vpon a plat of their businesse. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xl. 250/1 After much inter-course, and many intreaties passed, at length..he accepted their offer. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 259 in Justice Vindicated To these may be added a profound Judgement in the affaires both of Church & State, how much it appeared in the former, appears in the entercourse between him and Master Hinderson. 1692 J. Ray Misc. Disc. Dissolution World 38 This Tradition..which they could not receive from the Greek Philosophers or Poets, with whom they had no entercourse. †5. a. Intercommunication between things or parts. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > contiguity > communicating (of things) incurse1578 intercourse1626 commerce1634 correspondence1698 intercommunication1866 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [noun] > uninterrupted connection of parts > intercommunication intercourse1626 commerce1634 correspondence1698 intercommunication1866 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §700 We see plainly what an Intercourse there is between the Teeth, and the Organ of the Hearing, by the taking of the end of a Bow between the Teeth, and striking upon the String. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 95 This Caspian Sea, which..has no commerce or entercourse with any Sea, except..it be subterranean. 1661 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mech. (1682) i. v. 12 When the Mercurial Cylinder..has at the other end of it Air, kept from any Entercourse with the Atmosphere. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 126 Those [rivers] that have a more immediate intercourse with the sea, participate of its influences, and have the same vicissitudes. †b. A means or way of intercommunication. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > contiguity > communicating (of things) > a means of intercourse1660 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [noun] > uninterrupted connection of parts > intercommunication > means of communication?a1425 intercourse1660 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xli. 333 We thought fit to open..an intercourse betwixt the Air in the Receiver, and that without it. 1783 Ann. Reg. 1781 Hist. Europe 14/1 Smaller armed vessels..master of all the channels and intercourses, as well as of the adjoining sea. †6. Passage in; entrance. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > power, right, or opportunity of entrance entryc1330 accessc1384 enteringc1436 entress1447 open door1526 entrance?1552 intercourse1598 open access1602 accession1608 entrée1746 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 177 A dore of entercourse into this garden. 1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 291 Where both the ayr & the Sun have free entercourse. 7. Continuous interchange or exchange of (letters, etc.). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > [noun] change?c1225 changingc1350 interchangingc1374 exchangec1384 permutationa1398 commutation1496 achange1530 chopping and changing1548 interchange1548 exchanging1553 promutation1560 intercourse1576 counterchange1579 chopping1581 counter-cambio?1592 interchangementa1616 commerce1631 swapping1695 barter1819 counterchanging1881 switching1904 va-et-vient1919 switch-around1981 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 130 I will not write..what I thinke toucheing the weale publique..because the inter~course of suche letters are daungerous. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 238 This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. View more context for this quotation 1729 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. (ed. 2) ix. 159 The first Offence..becomes the Occasion of entring into a long Intercourse of ill Offices. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. i. 344 An active intercourse of letters and messengers ensued. 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I II. ii. 54 These letters were afterwards followed by an intercourse of civilities. †8. Interchange of one thing with another; alternation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > alternation > [noun] interchangingc1374 alternationc1443 alternement1483 interchange1559 intercourse1571 reciprocation1586 circulation1597 counterchange1602 interchangeableness1606 subalternation1616 vicissitude1624 alternity1646 alternacy1650 alternative1732 variegation1781 fluctuation1802 alternance1826 up and down1855 intermittence1860 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xix. 2) The orderly intercourse of dayes and nightes so fitly succeding. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ii. viii. 137 Yet had the Kingdome of Judah their entercourses of corruption and reformation, according as they had good or bad kings. 1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia i. 17 The entercourses Of whose mixt fortunes taught her tender heart To feele the selfe same ioy, the selfe same smart. 1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 105 Birds like watchful clocks the noiseless Date, And intercourse of times divide. 9. †a. The fact of coming between or intervening; intervention; an intervening course or space; an interval. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] interventure1578 intercourse1589 intercession1605 interjacency1646 interventiona1650 interveniency1660 interjacence1864 betweenness1892 the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event > intervening occurrence intercourse1589 intercurrence1603 intercurrency1670 intervention1676 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie Ep. Ded. sig. ¶iiii But from such entercourse of excuse, let my vnschooled indignities, conuert themselues to your courtesie. 1624 R. Bellings Sixth Bk. Arcadia sig. B2^v The Arcadian Plaines, beautified by the intercourse of manie Forrests. 1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. 7 Three courses of meate; but betweene them..there was an entercourse, for the King accused a man of Treason, and cut off his head, and returned againe. †b. Intervention on the part of some agent. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [noun] interventionc1425 interposition1462 striking1530 intercourse1586 entermise1600 intervening1605 intermitter1611 interposal1625 interveniencea1627 intermission1628 interveniency1660 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 67 By the intercourse of the Kinges royall assent adhibited by the hande of his heralde. 1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. To Rdr. 6 [It] is effected immediately by the..arme of God, without the intercourse of naturall causes. 1646 J. Gregory Notes & Observ. xxiv. 114 If we betake our selves to this other way, one onely entercourse of Omnipotency will serve the turne. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † intercoursev. Etymology: < intercourse n. Obsolete. rare. 1. intransitive. To run through, run across. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > lie across [verb (transitive)] thwart1413 transverse1430 overcrossa1450 overthwartc1450 traverse1555 cross1577 intercourse1597 transit1890 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 272 Two colours occupying halfe the flower, or intercoursing the whole flower with streakes and orderly streames. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Intercorrere, to entercourse or run. 2. To have intercourse with. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > have social communication with [verb (transitive)] intercommunec1374 dealc1380 usec1384 intercommonc1430 resort?1518 minglea1593 use1594 intercoursea1604 sociate1635 to keep termsa1673 shoulder1851 tangle1928 a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 53 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Entercoursing with domesticall and forraigne students. 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