Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to inosculate
Participle: inosculated
Gerund: inosculating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | inosculate |
| you | inosculate |
| he;she;it | inosculates |
| we | inosculate |
| you | inosculate |
| they | inosculate |
Perfect
| I | have inosculated |
| you | have inosculated |
| he;she;it | has inosculated |
| we | have inosculated |
| you | have inosculated |
| they | have inosculated |
Past
| I | inosculated |
| you | inosculated |
| he;she;it | inosculated |
| we | inosculated |
| you | inosculated |
| they | inosculated |
Pluperfect
| I | had inosculated |
| you | had inosculated |
| he;she;it | had inosculated |
| we | had inosculated |
| you | had inosculated |
| they | had inosculated |
Future
| I | will inosculate |
| you | will inosculate |
| he;she;it | will inosculate |
| we | will inosculate |
| you | will inosculate |
| they | will inosculate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have inosculated |
| you | will have inosculated |
| he;she;it | will have inosculated |
| we | will have inosculated |
| you | will have inosculated |
| they | will have inosculated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | inosculate |
| you | inosculate |
| he;she;it | inosculate |
| we | inosculate |
| you | inosculate |
| they | inosculate |
Perfect
| I | have inosculated |
| you | have inosculated |
| he;she;it | have inosculated |
| we | have inosculated |
| you | have inosculated |
| they | have inosculated |
Imperfect
| I | inosculated |
| you | inosculated |
| he;she;it | inosculated |
| we | inosculated |
| you | inosculated |
| they | inosculated |
Pluperfect
| I | had inosculated |
| you | had inosculated |
| he;she;it | had inosculated |
| we | had inosculated |
| you | had inosculated |
| they | had inosculated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would inosculate |
| you | would inosculate |
| he;she;it | would inosculate |
| we | would inosculate |
| you | would inosculate |
| they | would inosculate |
Perfect
| I | would have inosculated |
| you | would have inosculated |
| he;she;it | would have inosculated |
| we | would have inosculated |
| you | would have inosculated |
| they | would have inosculated |
Imperative
| you | inosculate |
| we | Let's inosculate |
| you | inosculate |
Verbs conjugated like 'inosculate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'inosculate'
inocculate,
inoculate,
deosculate,
exosculate,
innoculate,
insulate,
osculate,
emasculate,
exoculate,
flocculate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to combine more than one item into one
- accouple, affix, associate, attach, bewed, bind, clasp, clinch, combine, conglomerate, conglutinate, conjoin, connect, couple, entwine, fay, fix, graft, hitch, hook, interlink, join, joint, knit, knot, link, marry, put together, splice, unite, wed, yoke
- to make the same; to remove variety
- homogenize, uniformize
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
First attested in 1672; from in- + osculate or its Latin etymon ōsculātus, perfect active participle of Latin osculor (“to kiss”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) from ōsculum (“a kiss”). The adjective is a back-formation from inosculation, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). See: Latin '
osculor'.
Sample Sentences
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The party left the town of Martaban on the 20th March; they passed two grassy and level islands just above the junction of the Gyein river with the main one. […] This inosculating river is about half the breadth of the Sanloon. [1826 November 26, “Survey of the River Sanloon”, in The Asiatic Journal, volume 22, number 131, page 550:]
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Clouds sometimes inosculate with smoke. Howard mentions several cases in his Journals. "The smoke of London," he observes, "when passing away in a body swelled up into distinct heaps, each of which inosculated at its summit with a small Cloud. Groups of Cumulo Stratus, the Cumulus and Cirro Stratus occupied the South part of the sky attracting smoke." [1834, George Harvey, “On Clouds”, in A Treatise on Meteorology, page 161:]
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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. [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:]