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inosculate

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10 lettersPronunciation /ɪˈnɒs.kjʊˌleɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aceilnostuStarts with IEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis

Word origin

First attested in 1672; from in- + osculate or its Latin etymon ōsculātus, perfect active participle of Latin osculor (“to kiss”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) from ōsculum (“a kiss”). The adjective is a back-formation from inosculation, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Used in a sentence

  • However, not all physicians of that age were convinced about the inosculate nature of these diseases, and debate continued unabated until the tragic self-experimentation of John Hunter in 1767.
  • The choice between normal, inverse, and inosculate strategies required some attention if only to emphasize the difference between the inosculate approach and much early work on numerical taxonomy.
  • This study proposes to trace the inosculate nature of the mask theme in Nietzsche's philosophy.

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