interioradj.n.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xiii. 47 Dydo wyth her suster Anne..loked In to the entraylles Interiores of the bestes there slayne, For to fuldo the sacryfyce.

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxxii. sig. l.iiii^v Her..interiour vesture.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xii. 333 All colde diseases of the interior or inner partes.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. vi. 23 Sense is Motion in the organs and interiour parts of mans body.

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 3 Colepits, and the like..displayed to sight the interiour Parts of it.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Polygon Interior Polygon, the main Body of the Work or Place, excluding the Out-works.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Talus Talus Interiour or Inward Talus, the Steepness of the Rampart, or other Work on the in-side.

1756 R. Simson Euclid i. Prop. xvi If one side of a triangle be produced, the exterior angle shall be greater than either of the interior opposite angles.

1756 R. Simson Euclid i. Prop. xxxii The three interior angles of any triangle are equal to two right angles.

1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 142/1 Interior flanking angle is formed by the curtain and line of defence..Interior side is the line of the curtain produced to the two oblique radii of the front, or a line drawn from the centre of one bastion to that of the next. Interior slope is the inclination towards the inner part of a work given to the earth forming the rampart or parapet.

1863 J. Tyndall Heat (1870) v. §160. 135 Also accomplishes what we may call interior work.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Interior Screw, one cut on an interior or hollow surface, as of a nut, burr, or tap-hole.

1816 T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall vi. 78 The library..which was interior to the music-room.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Inferior Planets, this name..is applied to Mercury and Venus, because they revolve in orbits interior to the earth's path.

1772 W. Jones Ess. Poetry Eastern Nations in Poems 187 In the interiour parts of the empire.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 160 Proximity to the Bay of Fundy, and principal interiour settlements of the province.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. x. 114 To learn something of the interior features of the country.

1895 Westm. Gaz. 9 Sept. 2/1 He knew of no other interior chief who had even attempted the half that Khama had accomplished in the advancing of his people towards the goal of civilisation.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 636 Coomassie..if properly managed for a few years, will become a great interior market, attracting to itself the routes of interior trade.

1862 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 339 Interior [margin], the inner margin of the wing, or that next the body.

1768 P. Thicknesse (title) Useful Hints to those who make the Tour of France, including Account of the Interior Police of that Kingdom.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. v. 198 The interior trade, or that from place to place within the country.

1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 264/2 (Russia) The administration..is conducted by the..Ministry of foreign affairs, Ministry of interior affairs, or home department [etc.].

1775 Hist. Eur. in Ann. Reg. 44/1 He was thwarted and overruled by what in the cant phrase is called the interior cabinet.

1790 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. (1876) xv. 100 To draw out the interior principles of our art.

1791 E. Burke Let. to Member National Assembly in Wks. (1823) VI. 61 The exterior or interiour purposes of the French monarchy.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 241 There was to be no interior cabinet. All the thirty were to be entrusted with every political secret, and summoned to every meeting.

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xii. sig. e.ii Wherby he perceyued, the great holynesse Of blessed saynt Cead and interyor deuocyon.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxix Perauenture..that her interior iye sawe priuily, and gaue to her a secrete monicion of the greate calamities.

?1566 J. Alday tr. P. Boaistuau Theatrum Mundi sig. T iv To exercise his fancie and other interior senses.

1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 298 They doe not deny but that it may be called a Sacrament, and that some interiour Grace is conferred by it.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. xlii. 260 A number of people, of high interior worth.

1852 H. Rogers Ess. I. vii. 337 One or two extracts..give the key to his whole interior history.

1899 G. G. Findlay in Expositor Feb. 90 The outcome of the interior, spiritual action of Christ upon human society.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xxv The Earle of Northumberland..began secretely to communicate his interior imaginacions and priuie thoughtes with Richard Scrope.

1610 Death Rauilliack in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 110 We thinke it an interior loue to our countri-men to haue an abstract of the most occurences that hapned since.

1854 J. H. Newman Lect. Hist. Turks 257 An apposite illustration of what I mean by an ‘interior’ people, if I may borrow a devotional word to express a philosophical idea.

1863 Home & For. Rev. II. 274 So pious, so contemplative, and so interior a spirit.

1879 W. G. Ward Ess. (1884) II. x. 9 Difference..between the interior and the worldly man respectively.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth v, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 149 The Prince..acquainted with its interior, ran up stairs.

1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. I. 264 The interior..we found very impressive, dim with the light of stained and painted windows.

1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 414 In the booths which lined the interior of the court.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 188 Deep-seated in the interior of the earth.

1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France ii, in Wks. (1808) VIII. 228 Her frontier was terrible, her interiour feeble.

1803 S. Smith Wks. 38 Our first acquaintance with the interior of many countries.

1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 89 The Chinese merchants purchase goods and take them to other ports or the interior.

1883 Chambers's Cycl. I. 565 Western Australia..rests on desert sandstone, which also stretches north and eastward far into the interior.

1883 Chambers's Cycl. VII. 251 (Papua) In the interior are abundance of fine timber trees.

1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 159 Sierra Leone..connected with a wide-spread Interior also largely Mohammedan.

1829 H. Foote Compan. to Theatres 57 A few interiors, two or three streets, and about the same number of country views, would last as stock scenery for several seasons.

1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Jrnl. 20 May (1998) 317 The two interiors of Westminster Abbey by Ainmueller, admirable.

1864 Realm 22 June 7 Everything that brings nature into our interiors deserves encouragement.

1891 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 88 Many points must be borne in mind by the brain behind the lens to direct and then supplement its work, especially in the studio and with interiors.

1898 W. Archer Theatr. ‘World’ 1897 180 Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan at the Olympic, made great strides towards realism in the dressing of modern plays and setting of everyday ‘interiors’.

a1900 Mod. A photographer noted for his success with interiors.

1916 J. R. Towse Sixty Years of Theater ii. 23 There were no elaborate and costly interiors, no enclosed box scenes, flats and wings were shifted before the eyes of the spectators.

1966 J. Potts Footsteps on Stairs (1967) i. 9 She does the most divine interiors.

1835 C. Dickens Let. 4 Nov. (1965) I. 87 A..Pill—which..is performing such singular evolutions in my interior.

1906 J. Joyce Let. 18 Oct. (1966) II. 183 It [sc. wine] had not the least effect upon..‘my interiors’.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 593 Mr Bloom..noticed when he stood up that he had two flasks of presumably ship's rum sticking one out of each pocket for the private consumption of his burning interior.