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n. [Lat. interpellatio, It. interpellazione, Sp. interpelacion, Fr. interpellation.] The act of interpelling; as, (a.) The act of interrupting; interruption. “Continual interpellations.” Bp. Hall. (b.) The act of interfering, interposing, or interceding; interposition; intercession. “Accepted by his interpellation and intercession in the acts and offices of Christ.” Bp. Taylor.
n. [Lat. interpolatio, Fr. interpolation, Pr. interpolacio, Sp. interpolacion, It. interpolazione.]
Sense 1. The act of foisting a word or passage into a manuscript or book.
Sense 2. A spurious word or passage inserted in the genuine writings of an author.
Bentley wrote a letter . . . upon the scriptural glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand. De Quincey.
Sense 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.