Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In electricity, a form of relay for the automatic transmission to a submarine cable of signals received through another such cable.
  • noun One who interpolates; one who inserts in a book or manuscript new or spurious words or passages; one who adds something deceptively or without authority to an original text.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who interpolates; esp., one who inserts foreign or spurious matter in genuine writings.

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  • noun One who, or that which, interpolates.

Etymologies

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interpolate +‎ -or

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Examples

  • Vermes actually thinks a Christian interpolator would never have put on the lips of a Jew like Josephus a phrase used in the New Testament as coming from 'uncommitted witnesses'.

    The Messiah-Maker James F. McGrath 2009

  • Vermes 'Vermes 'Furthermore, a Christian interpolator would be presumed to use phrases borrowed from the New Testament such as "mighty deeds" or "signs" instead of the neutral "paradoxical deeds".

    The Messiah-Maker James F. McGrath 2009

  • It seems to me that all this is too elaborate for an interpolator: it smacks of Xenophon in his arm-chair, theorising and half-dreaming over his political philosophy.

    Cyropaedia 2007

  • He fully condemns these lines as the work of an interpolator.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • But Merkel, followed by Palmer, considered 31-38 an interpolation; and _aeripedes_ may have been what the interpolator wrote.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Szu-ma Kuang thinks that the account of finding a three-legged cauldron in 116 B.C. is a doublet of the account dated for 113 B.C., and that the first account was inserted into the record by mistake because someone thought it necessary to account for the name of the year-period, since the interpolator did not realize that the names of these year-periods were not given until 114 or

    The History of the Former Han Dynasty 1944

  • It is alleged that many of the words are such as Josephus might have used, but, apart from the fact that this is contested by other authorities, it is unreasonable to suppose that the interpolator would go out of his way to stamp the insertion as a forgery by using extraordinary words.

    Josephus Norman Bentwich 1927

  • It is alleged that many of the words are such as Josephus might have used, but, apart from the fact that this is contested by other authorities, it is unreasonable to suppose that the interpolator would go out of his way to stamp the insertion as a forgery by using extraordinary words.

    Josephus Bentwich, Norman 1914

  • He makes use of the Syro-Macedonian calendar (can. 26), borrows very largely from a Syrian council (Antioch, 341), and according to Von Funk is identical with the compiler or interpolator of the Apostolic

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • Christian sentiments are the super-added work of a Christian interpolator.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

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