Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of interlining; alteration or correction, as of written or printed matter, by interlinear insertion; also, that which is interlined; specifically, in law, an alteration made in a written instrument by inserting any matter after it is engrossed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of interlining.
- noun That which is interlined; a passage, word, or line inserted between lines already written or printed.
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- noun A
notation made between the lines, especially in ahandwritten document
Etymologies
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Examples
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Excuse my interlineation of this correction of my post: "...than the private citizen should be telling the office-seeker what to say."
"In the end, voters will decide what's off-limits, but I can't imagine that the public will reward the politics of personal destruction." Ann Althouse 2007
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The condition of the little pages of manuscript where Death stopped his hand, shows that he had carried them about, and often taken them out of his pocket here and there, for patient revision and interlineation.
Miscellaneous Papers 2007
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[The following three paragraphs were begun by JA as an interlineation in the MS and then continued on a separate sheet marked for insertion ahead of the entry of 17 April, below.]
John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961
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At the end of this title, interlined by another hand, follow the words "_newly, overseer ... ignorants_;" but these words are also struck through and re-written on the preceding leaf, on which, written by the same hand by which the interlineation was made (Garnet's, as it would seem), the title stands, --
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The MSS. looks as if expressly written for interlineation.
The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo
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In the will of the "Bard of Avon" is an interlineation in his own handwriting -- "I give unto my wife my brown best bed, with the furniture."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831 Various
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[DR] (MS. interlineation in a copy among the King's pamphlets.) xxiv.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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He made the interlineation, rolled the scroll and sealed it.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller
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A few sentences more or a paragraph of the note and another interlineation of this kind.
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His lectures on Physics are written elegantly and clearly, without interlineation, and embracing the latest researches of his time.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907
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