Interpolating

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Interpolate \In*ter"po*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Interpolated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Interpolating}.] [L.
     interpolatus, p. p. of interpolare to form anew, to
     interpolate, fr. interpolus, interpolis, falsified, vamped
     up, polished up; inter between + polire to polish. See
     {Polish}, v. t.]


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     1. To renew; to carry on with intermission. [Obs.]
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              Motion . . . partly continued and unintermitted, . .
              . partly interpolated and interrupted. --Sir M.
                                                    Hale.
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     2. To alter or corrupt by the insertion of new or foreign
        matter; especially, to change, as a book or text, by the
        insertion of matter that is new, or foreign to the purpose
        of the author.
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              How strangely Ignatius is mangled and interpolated,
              you may see by the vast difference of all copies and
              editions.                             --Bp. Barlow.
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              The Athenians were put in possession of Salamis by
              another law, which was cited by Solon, or, as some
              think, interpolated by him for that purpose. --Pope.
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     3. (Math.) To fill up intermediate terms of, as of a series,
        according to the law of the series; to introduce, as a
        number or quantity, in a partial series, according to the
        law of that part of the series; to estimate a value at a
        point intermediate between points of knwon value. Compare
        {extrapolate}.
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