alternize

English

Alternative forms

• alternise

Verb

alternize (third-person singular simple present alternizes, present participle alternizing, simple past and past participle alternized)

1. To alternate or take turns.
   • 1804, William Patterson, Observations on the Climate of Ireland, pages 162–163:

     From a sketch of the weather, taken at Galway, in 1789, it appears that the north-west winds were most prevalent there from January to August; that the storms and squalls from north-west, and those from south-west and south, were on an equality in number; and that the north-west and south-east winds sometimes alternized.

   • 1854 June, A. Cuirass, “Mr. Paul Bobolink and his Two Marriages”, in The Pioneer: Or, California Monthly Magazine, volume 1, number 6, page 337:

     Sufficient to say that he alternized cold mutton and toddy, narration and exclamation, eating, drinking, exposition and swearing, in a way that convinced me what he asserted was true — that his domestic felicity was forever destroyed.

   • 1880, Fanny Burney, Diary and Letters of Frances Burney, page 528:

     Yet I only saw him once; but that was in a téte-a-téte, alternized with a trio by my son, that lasted a whole afternoon.

   • 2019, Harry Stephen Keeler, Hazel Goodwin Keeler, The Street of One Thousand Eyes, page 94:

     No, Doctor, all that is required, for there to be actual ineluctable manifestations of braided given spaces, is that the spaces—the four-dimensional extensions of those spaces, Doctor—be originally laid out in the Universe in alternizing segments so that the anomalous phenomena arising from this—this malposition—at least when observed—are identical with the phenomena resulting from actual 'braided' spaces .