INTERPOLATES
Verb
interpolates
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interpolate
Anagrams
• telapristone
Source: Wiktionary
INTERPOLATE
In*ter"po*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interpolated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Interpolating.] Etym: [L. interpolatus, p. p. of interpolare to form
anew, to interpolate, fr. interpolus, interpolis, falsified, vamped
up, polished up; inter between + polire to polish. See Polish, v. t.]
1. To renew; to carry on with intermission. [Obs.]
Motion . . . partly continued and unintermitted, . . . partly
interpolated and interrupted. Sir M. Hale.
2. To alter or corrupt by the insertion of new or foreign matter;
especially, to change, as a book or text, by the insertion of matter
that is new, or foreign to the purpose of the author.
How strangely Ignatius is mangled and interpolated, you may see by
the vast difference of all copies and editions. Bp. Barlow.
The Athenians were put in possession of Salamis by another law, which
was cited by Solon, or, as some think, interpolated by him for that
purpose. Pope.
3. (Math.)
Definition: To fill up intermediate terms of, as of a series, according to
the law of the series; to introduce, as a number or quantity, in a
partial series, according to the law of that part of the series.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition