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with Anu Garginosculate
PRONUNCIATION:
(in-AWS-kyuh-layt)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To join or unite.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin in- (within) + osculare (to provide with a mouth), from osculum
(little mouth), from os (mouth). Also see
osculate. Earliest documented use:
1683.
USAGE:
"The frozen images of delicate leaves and inosculating branches. The still
street, the black windows of the other houses! What a time to be awake!"Stephen C Sutcliffe; Atom; Writer's Showcase Press; 2002. See more usage examples of inosculate in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. -William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830)
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