inosculates

It overhangs its base in folds, and often bears perched on its summit some other form of cloud, which inosculates itself with it.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 Various

The third order, from six to eight in number, is found in the interior portion of the brain, and inosculates between the first and second orders.

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

I do not want to plunge into depths far too deep for any man to find sure footing in, nor seek to define the undefinable, nor to explain how the divine inosculates with the human, but sure I am that Jesus

Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Alexander Maclaren 1868

It inosculates closely with the natural order of things.

Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Alexander Maclaren 1868

By looking to either side of the leaf, it will be seen that a branch from the great central bifurcation inosculates with a branch from the lateral bundle, and that there is a smaller inosculation between the two chief branches of the lateral bundle.

Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845

But, whilst I was ignorant of theology, as a direct and separate branch of study, the points are so many at which theology inosculates with philosophy, and with endless casual and random suggestions of the self - prompted reason, that inevitably from that same moment in which I began to find a motive for directing my thoughts to this new subject, I wanted not something to say that might have perplexed an antagonist, or

Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

But, whilst I was ignorant of theology, as a direct and separate branch of study, the points are so many at which theology inosculates with philosophy, and with endless casual and random suggestions of the self - prompted reason, that inevitably from that same moment in which I began to find a motive for directing my thoughts to this new subject, I wanted not something to say that might have perplexed an antagonist, or

Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822