interturb

English

Etymology

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Verb

interturb (third-person singular simple present interturbs, present participle interturbing, simple past and past participle interturbed)

1. (obsolete) To disturb.
   • 1968, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society:

     How unseasonably and unkindly it is, to interturb the State and Church with their Amalekitish onsets, when they are in their extreme pangs of travail with their lives.

   • 2005, John Bradford, Aubrey Townsend, The Writings of John Bradford, page 22:

     And to the intent I would you should not think any ingratitude in me, as also that I might give you occasion to write to me again, as heretofore I have done, even so do I interturb and trouble you with my babbling, but yet having this commodity, that I babble not so much as I was wont to do.

   • 1967, John Bruce, William Douglas Hamilton, Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I, 1625 [-1649]:

     The complaint made against Robert Brerewood, their townclerk, and some others of the city, they think too mean a business to “interturb” the weightier affairs of the Council.