interknow

English

Alternative forms

enter-know

Etymology

From inter- +‎ know.

Verb

interknow (third-person singular simple present interknows, present participle interknowing, simple past interknew, past participle interknown)

(obsolete, intransitive) To be mutually acquainted with.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 18, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  It is the only instrument by meanes whereof our wils and thoughts are communicated: it is the interpretour of our soules: If that faile us, we hold our selves no more, we enter-know one another no longer.

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