What does "inosculate" mean?
Inosculate: To intercommunicate; to interjoin. The several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes. De Quincey.
Additional senses
- 2.To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body. Berkeley.
- 3.To unite intimately; to cause to become as one. They were still together, grew (For so they said themselves) inosculated. Tennyson.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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