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.]
1. To renew; to carry on with
intermission. [Obs.]
Motion . . . partly continued and unintermitted, . . .
partly interpolated and interrupted.
Sir M.
Hale.
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.
How strangely Ignatius is mangled and
interpolated, you may see by the vast difference of all copies
and editions.
Bp. Barlow.
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.
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.
