Inosculate

Definition of Inosculate

In`os´cu`late
v. i.1.To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose.
[imp. & p. p. Inosculated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Inosculating .]
2.To intercommunicate; to interjoin.
The several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes.
- De Quincey.
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.
- Tennyson.

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anastomose, conjoin, join
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