interpoint
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
A variant of interpunct
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
interpoint (plural interpoints)
- (typography) Synonym of interpunct ⟨·⟩.
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
interpoint (third-person singular simple present interpoints, present participle interpointing, simple past and past participle interpointed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate.
- 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
- Her heart commands, her words should pass out first, / And then her sighs should interpoint her words; / The whiles her eyes out into tears should burst.