Meanings
plural interjacencies
- uncountableusuallyThe quality of being interjacent.
- uncountableusuallySomething that lies between.
its fluctuations are but motions subservient; which winds, storms, shores, shelves, and every interjacency irregulates.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC1 more example
[…] It is very well known, that England and Scotland made but one Iſland, divided not by the Sea or any conſiderable Arm thereof, but only by the Interjacency of the River Tweed, and ſome Deſert Ground, which did not hinder any eaſie common Acceſs of the People of the one Kingdom to the other: […]
1713, [Matthew Hale], “Concerning the Communication of the Laws of England unto the Kingdom of Scotland”, in The History of the Common Law of England: […], [London]: […] J[ohn] Nutt, assignee of Edw[ard] Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, […], →OCLC, page 197
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