intersert

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin intersertus, past participle of interserere (“to intersert”), from inter (“between”) + serere (“to join, weave”).

Verb edit

intersert (third-person singular simple present interserts, present participle interserting, simple past and past participle interserted)

(obsolete, transitive) To put in between other things; to insert.
- 1614, Edward Brerewood, Enquiries Touching the Diversity of Languages and Religions:
  If I may […] intersert a short speculation, the depth of the sea […] is determined in Pliny to be fifteen furlongs.

References edit

“intersert”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.