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Intestine
//ɪnˈtɛstɪn// adj, noun
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Domestic; taking place within a given country or region. not-comparable
"It being true that now after fiue yeeres intestine warre with the reuengefull implacable Indians, a firme peace (not againe easily to be broken) hath bin lately concluded[…]."
- 2 Internal. not-comparable, obsolete
"Hoping here to end / Intestine war in heaven, the arch foe subdued."
- 3 Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective. not-comparable, obsolete, rare
"When you have alleaged all the reasons you can, and beleeved all to disavow and reject her, she produceth, contrarie to your discourses, so intestine inclination, that you have small hold against her."
- 4 Shut up; enclosed. not-comparable, obsolete, rare
"No thunders shook with deep intestine sound The blooming groves that girdled her around."
Noun
- 1 The alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs.
- 2 the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus wordnet
- 3 One of certain subdivisions of this part of the alimentary canal, such as the small or large intestine in human beings.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Latin intestīnum, neuter of intestīnus (“internal”), as Etymology 2, below.
Etymology 2
From Latin intestīnus (“internal”), from intus (“within”).
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