interlapsing

Verb

interlapse (third-person singular simple present interlapses, present participle interlapsing, simple past and past participle interlapsed)

1. (obsolete) To elapse (between two events).
   • the space of time that interlapsed betwixt the overthrow of Hamilton, and our solemne denouncing against them for that hostilitie1651, Henry Parker, “Of the Scoch Warre”, in Scotlands Holy War, London, p

   Synonyms:

   intervene

2. (obsolete, rare) To be situated between.
   • But when the pool, save for the margins, was all one wave of interlapsing gold and silver, the shadow-shape at last raised a shaggy peaked head.1895, William Sharp (as Fiona Macleod), The Mountain Lovers, London: John Lane, Chapter 1, p. 13

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