Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lying or being between; intervening: as, interjacent isles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Lying or being between or among; intervening.
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- adjective situated
between ; lying among.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The interjacent eight mayors, and the number of years they served, are O'Dwyer - 5, Impellitteri - 3, Wagner - 12, Lindsay - 8, Beame - 4, Koch - 12, Dinkins - 4 and Giuliani - 8.
Henry J. Stern: They're Off! Henry J. Stern 2011
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The interjacent eight mayors, and the number of years they served, are O'Dwyer - 5, Impellitteri - 3, Wagner - 12, Lindsay - 8, Beame - 4, Koch - 12, Dinkins - 4 and Giuliani - 8.
Henry J. Stern: They're Off! Henry J. Stern 2011
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And to no purpose has he made the interjacent atmosphere so efficacious and elastic that the vision penetrates through the atmosphere which is in a manner moved?
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It was one continuous jungle, except three interjacent glades of narrow limits, which gave us three breathing pauses in the dire task of jungle travelling.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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Robert was succeeded by his sons Roger and William, to whose dominion not only was Naples added, but all the places interjacent as far as Rome, and afterward Sicily, of which Roger became sovereign; but, upon William going to Constantinople, to marry the daughter of the emperor, his dominions were wrested from him by his brother Roger.
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Ambrones with all expedition passing over the interjacent country, soon came in sight, in numbers beyond belief, of a terrible aspect, and uttering strange cries and shouts.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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At the sight of this vision he was much assured, and with swift marches overrunning all the interjacent places, takes Beroea, and making his head-quarters there, reduced the rest of the country by his commanders.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Their cavalry and chariots of war filled the interjacent field with great tumult and boundings to and fro.
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Because their colours are always tinted by the deepening hues of the interjacent atmosphere.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832 Various
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-- Ireland, Highlands of Scotland, and the interjacent Isle of Man.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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