interknow
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interknow (third-person singular simple present interknows, present participle interknowing, simple past interknew, past participle interknown)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be mutually acquainted with.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 18, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- It is the only instrument by meanes whereof our wils and thoughts are communicated: it is the interpretour of our soules: If that faile us, we hold our selves no more, we enter-know one another no longer.