alternize

present singular third person alternizes · participle present alternizing · participle past alternized · past alternized · alternative alternise

1. To alternate or take turns.

   Yet I only saw him once; but that was in a téte-a-téte, alternized with a trio by my son, that lasted a whole afternoon.

   1880, Fanny Burney, Diary and Letters of Frances Burney, page 528

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   From a sketch of the weather, taken at Galway, in 1789, it appears that the north-west winds were most prevalent there from January to August; that the storms and squalls from north-west, and those from south-west and south, were on an equality in number; and that the north-west and south-east winds sometimes alternized.

   1804, William Patterson, Observations on the Climate of Ireland, pages 162–163

   Sufficient to say that he alternized cold mutton and toddy, narration and exclamation, eating, drinking, exposition and swearing, in a way that convinced me what he asserted was true — that his domestic felicity was forever destroyed.

   1854 June, A. Cuirass, “Mr. Paul Bobolink and his Two Marriages”, in The Pioneer: Or, California Monthly Magazine, volume 1, number 6, page 337

   No, Doctor, all that is required, for there to be actual ineluctable manifestations of braided given spaces, is that the spaces—the four-dimensional extensions of those spaces, Doctor—be originally laid out in the Universe in alternizing segments so that the anomalous phenomena arising from this—this malposition—at least when observed—are identical with the phenomena resulting from actual 'braided' spaces .

   2019, Harry Stephen Keeler, Hazel Goodwin Keeler, The Street of One Thousand Eyes, page 94