From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Interpolate \In*ter"po*late\, 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.]
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1. To renew; to carry on with intermission. [Obs.]
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Motion . . . partly continued and unintermitted, . .
. partly interpolated and interrupted. --Sir M.
Hale.
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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.
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How strangely Ignatius is mangled and interpolated,
you may see by the vast difference of all copies and
editions. --Bp. Barlow.
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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.
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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}.
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