"inosculate" meaning in All languages combined

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        "To homogenize; to make continuous."
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        "(transitive) To unite."
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          "ref": "1852, Thomas De Quincey, “Sir William Hamilton”, in Hogg's Weekly Instructor, volume 8, Edinburgh: James Hogg, page 404; reprinted in The Collected Writings Of Thomas De Quincey, volume 5, London: A & C Black, 1897, page 316:",
          "text": "But that, alas! is impossible. Hearken to the nature of the fix in which I find myself, and say if you ever heard of a worse. Under ordinary circumstances, if one outruns the usual allowance of space, one has but to say at the foot of the paper, To be continued, and all is healed. Any paper may be adjourned from month to month,—true, but not from volume to volume; and, unhappily for me, this very week's number, in which I am now writing, closes a volume. The several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes.",
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          "text": "This study proposes to trace the inosculate nature of the mask theme in Nietzsche's philosophy.",
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          "text": "The trunks of inosculate, or self-grafting, trees, such as Elm, Live Oak, and Dogwood, are the load-bearing structure, and the branches from a continuous lattice frame for the walls and roof.",
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        "To open into."
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        "(intransitive) To open into."
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          "text": "But that, alas! is impossible. Hearken to the nature of the fix in which I find myself, and say if you ever heard of a worse. Under ordinary circumstances, if one outruns the usual allowance of space, one has but to say at the foot of the paper, To be continued, and all is healed. Any paper may be adjourned from month to month,—true, but not from volume to volume; and, unhappily for me, this very week's number, in which I am now writing, closes a volume. The several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes.",
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