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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Inosculate

In-ös'cu-lāte, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. INOSCULATED; p. pr. & vb. n. INOSCULATING.] [Lat. in and oscu-lari, osculatum, to kiss; It. inosculare. See OSCULATION.]

Sense 1. To unite by apposition or contact; to unite, as two vessels at their extremities; to anastomose; as, one vein or artery inosculates with another; a vein inosculates with an artery.

Sense 2. To blend, or become united.

The several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes. De Quincey.

In-ōs'cu-lāte, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. 1. To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body. 2. To unite intimately; to cause to become as one. *They were still together, grew (For so they said themselves) inosculated; Consonant chords that shiver to one note. Tennyson.*