interdeal
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
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
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
- James Orchard Halliwell (1846) “INTERDEAL”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volumes I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 447, column 1.