Volume 1

A glossary, or, Collection of words, phrases, names, and allusions to customs, proverbs, etc., which have been thought to require illustration, in the works of English authors, particularly Shakespeare, and his contemporaries / [Robert Nares].

  • Robert Nares
Date:
1882
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    But, nor the time, nor place, Will serve our long intergatories; see, Poshumus, &c. Cymb., v, 5. This instance has also been adduced by Mr. Reed: Then you must answer To these intergatories. Brome’s Novella, ii, 1. INTERMEAN, s. Something coming between two other parts; an inven- tion, as it seems, of Ben Jonson, who, in his play of the Staple of News, has an Induction, which is a conversation of Prologue with four ladies called gossips, Mirth, Tattle, Expectation, and Censure; between each act, he continues the discourses of the same interlocutors, Prologue excepted, under the title of the first, second, third, and fourth intermean. These intermeans are intended to anticipate all objections to the piece, and to answer them; which is done with much wit, and much reference to the older imperfect dramas, which the vulgar still admired. flNTERMEDDLE. To mix up with. Veritie is perfect, when it is not intermedled with falshood. Devil Conjur'd, 1596. To INTERMELL. To intermeddle. Johnson had quoted this word from Spenser, but erroneously, as Todd has noticed; but he has found it as a neuter verb in Marston, and a passive participle from it in bishop Fisher. The passage of the former is, To bite, to gnaw, and boldly intermell With sacred things, in which thou dost excell. Scourge ofVillanie, iii, 9. To INTERMETE, v. To intermeddle also; a word more ancient than the time of the writer, but given to the character of an antiquary, as charac- teristic. Why intermete, of what thou hast to done? The Ordinary, 0. PI., x, 281. This interpretation, however, has been doubted, and the word is not other- wise exemplified. [In the following example it seems to mean to intermix.] tUpon her cheekes the lillie and the rose Did intermeet wyth equall change of hew, &c. Gascoigne's Works, 1587. INTERPARLE, s. A parley, conversa- tion. And therefore doth an interparle exhort. Dan. Civ. Wars, ii, 23. fTo INTERPELL. To interrupt. No more now, for I am interpell'd by many busi- nesses. Howell's Familiar Letters, 1650. t^o INTERPREASE. To press in be- tween. On th’ Ithacensian seas, Or cliffy Samian, I may interprease, Waylay, and take lieve. Chapm. Odys., iv. j”INTERRUPTION. A term for a pro- rogation of Parliament, used in the seventeenth century. flNTERTEX. To intertwine. Latin. Green leaves of burdocks and ivie intert-xed and woven together. History of Don Quixote, 1675, f. 18. t To INTER VERT. To turn anything from its right purpose. And the other againe in a great chafe and griefe hereat, promised, That bee also shortly would give information, that Palladios being sent as an upright and uncorrupt notarie, had interverted and convened all the souldiors donative to his owne proper gaine. Holland's Ammianus Marcdlinus, 1609. INTHRONIZATE, part. adj. En- throned. In the feast of all saintes, the archbishop—was in- thronizate at Canterburie. Holinsh., vol. ii, V 5, col. 2. IMTHRO'NIZED. The same; and always accented on the antepenul- tima, as probably the former wrord was also. Make me despise this transitory pomp, And sit for aye inthronized in heav’n. Edw. II, 0. PL, ii, 392. So it ought to be printed evidently, for the verse ; and so it is in the original edition, quarto, 1598. For the high gods inthronized above, Prom their clear mansions plainly do behold All that frail man doth in this grosser mould. Drayt. Man in the Moon, p. 1326. He was inthronized in all solempnities, in receiving his kingly ornaments, &c. Holinsh., vol. i, A 6. fINTIRED. Wholly devoted ? I once loved her, And was to her intir'd. Heywood’s English Trav., 1633. INTITULED, part. Having a title in anything, a claim upon it. But beauty, in that white intituled, Prom Venus’ doves doth challenge that fair field. Sh. Rape of Lucr., Suppl., i, 476. So I take entitled to be also used, in his 37th sonnet: Entitled in thy parts do crowned sit. i. e., having a claim or title to thy parts. To INTREAT. (Dr. Johnson spells it entreat, yet intreat is more prevalent. See Entreat.) To treat, to behave well or ill to a person. Speak truth and be intreated courteously. B. Jons. Case is Alter'd, act iii, vol. vii, p. 359. Hence to use the time, to pass it: My lord, we must intreat the time alone. Rom. Sp Jul., iv, 1. INTREAT, s. Intreaty. And, at my lovely Tamora’s intreats, I do remit these young men’s heinous faults. Tit. Andr., i, 2.