interdeal
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Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
interdeal (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Intercourse, negotiation; traffic.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8:
- So me in message unto her she sent, / To treat with her, by way of enterdeale […]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8:
Verb[edit]
interdeal (third-person singular simple present interdeals, present participle interdealing, simple past and past participle interdealt)
- (obsolete) To carry on intrigues.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Daniel to this entry?)
References[edit]
- “interdeal” in James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho, 1847, OCLC 81046494, page 447, column 1.