*interpo*

a. That may be interpolated; suitable to be interpolated. [ 1913 Webster ]

A most interpolable clause of one sentence. De Morgan. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Interpolated p. pr. & vb. n. Interpolating. ] [ L. interpolatus, p. p. of interpolare to form anew, to interpolate, fr. interpolus, interpolis, falsified, vamped up, polished up; inter between + polire to polish. See Polish, v. t. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To renew; to carry on with intermission. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Motion . . . partly continued and unintermitted, . . . partly interpolated and interrupted. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To alter or corrupt by the insertion of new or foreign matter; especially, to change, as a book or text, by the insertion of matter that is new, or foreign to the purpose of the author. [ 1913 Webster ]

How strangely Ignatius is mangled and interpolated, you may see by the vast difference of all copies and editions. Bp. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Athenians were put in possession of Salamis by another law, which was cited by Solon, or, as some think, interpolated by him for that purpose. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Math.) To fill up intermediate terms of, as of a series, according to the law of the series; to introduce, as a number or quantity, in a partial series, according to the law of that part of the series; to estimate a value at a point intermediate between points of knwon value. Compare extrapolate. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. 1. Inserted in, or added to, the original; introduced; foisted in; changed by the insertion of new or spurious matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) (a) Provided with necessary interpolations; as, an interpolated table. (b) Introduced or determined by interpolation; as, interpolated quantities or numbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. interpolatio an alteration made here and there: cf. F. interpolation. ] 1. The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is introduced or inserted, especially something foreign or spurious. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bentley wrote a letter . . . . upon the scriptural glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Math.) The method or operation of finding from a few given terms of a series, as of numbers or observations, other intermediate terms in conformity with the law of the series. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., a corrupter: of. F. interpolateur. ] One who interpolates; esp., one who inserts foreign or spurious matter in genuine writings. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. interponere; inter between + ponere to place. See Position. ] To interpose; to insert or place between. [ R. ] Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, interposes; an interloper, an opponent. [ R. ] Heywood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Interpose. ] The act of interposing; interposition; intervention. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Interposed p. pr. & vb. n. Interposing. ] [ F. interposer. See Inter-, and Pose, v. t. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mountains interposed
Make enemies of nations. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To thrust; to intrude; to put between, either for aid or for troubling. [ 1913 Webster ]

What watchful cares do interpose themselves
Betwixt your eyes and night? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The common Father of mankind seasonably interposed his hand, and rescues miserable man. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To introduce or inject between the parts of a conversation or argument. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be or come between. [ 1913 Webster ]

Long hid by interposing hill or wood. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To step in between parties at variance; to mediate; as, the prince interposed and made peace. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To utter a sentiment by way of interruption. Boyle.

Syn. -- To intervene; intercede; mediate; interfere; intermeddle. -- To Interpose, Intermeddle, Interfere. A man may often interpose with propriety in the concerns of others; he can never intermeddle without being impertinent or officious; nor can be interfere without being liable to the same charge, unless he has rights which are interfered with. “In our practical use, interference is something offensive. It is the pushing in of himself between two parties on the part of a third who was not asked, and is not thanked for his pains, and who, as the feeling of the word implies, had no business there; while interposition is employed to express the friendly, peacemaking mediation of one whom the act well became, and who, even if he was not specially invited thereunto, is still thanked for what he has done.” Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Interposition. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, interposes or intervenes; an obstacle or interruption; a mediator or agent between parties. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From L. interpositus, p. p. of interponere. See Interposition. ] An intermediate depot or station between one commercial city or country and another. Mitford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. interpositio a putting between, insertion, fr. interponere, interpositum: cf. F. interposition. See Interpone, Position. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The thing interposed. [ 1913 Webster ]