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inosculate

/ɪˈnɒs.kjʊˌleɪt/

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First attested in 1672; from in- + osculate or its Latin etymon ōsculātus, perfect active participle of Latin osculor (“to kiss”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) from ōsculum (“a kiss”). The adjective is a back-formation from inosculation, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

verb inosculates · inosculating · inosculated

transitive To homogenize; to make continuous.
Similar: blend, fuse, homogenize, inosculate, uniformize
intransitive To open into. The party left the town of Martaban on the 20th March; they passed two grassy and level islands just above the junction of the Gyein river with the main one. […] This inosculating river is about half the breadth of the Sanloon.
rare, transitive To unite. Clouds sometimes inosculate with smoke. Howard mentions several cases in his Journals. "The smoke of London," he observes, "when passing away in a body swelled up into distinct heaps, each of which inosculated at its summit with a small Cloud. Groups of Cumulo Stratus, the Cumulus and Cirro Stratus
Similar: interosculate, affix, attach, join, put together, accouple, assemble, associate, bewed, bind, clasp, clinch
intransitive To intercommunicate; to interjoin. But that, alas! is impossible. Hearken to the nature of the fix in which I find myself, and say if you ever heard of a worse. Under ordinary circumstances, if one outruns the usual allowance of space, one has but to say at the foot of the paper, To be continued, and all is healed. Any paper may be a

adjective more inosculate · most inosculate

Pertaining to or characterized by inosculation. However, not all physicians of that age were convinced about the inosculate nature of these diseases, and debate continued unabated until the tragic self-experimentation of John Hunter in 1767.

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@misc{inosculate_2026,
  title = {inosculate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/inosculate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}