• Interpretted

    Verb

    verb form

    1. (comparatively rare)
      • 1717: Bishop Simon Patrick, Men?a My?tica: or, A Di?course Concerning the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, “Aqua Genitalis: A Di?cour?e concerning
    baptism, in which is in?erted a Brief Di?cour?e to per?uade to a Confirmation of the Bapti?mal Vow”, pages 395–396 (7th edition, corrected)
      • If any think it har?h to render tho?e words, For their dead Bodies, by the?e For the Re?urrection of their dead Bodies, (which in Bapti?m we profe?s to believe,) it is only for want of skill in the ?hort manner of ?peaking, which the Hebrews u?e. And methinks they may otherwi?e be interpretted to the ?ame ?en?e more plainly after this manner.
      • 2009, Rebecca Ann Lind, Race
        Gender
        Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers, John Whalen asks, “How can ‘redskins’ be interpretted as anything other than blatant racism?

    Usage notes

    The two-‘t’ spelling interpretted is nearly eighteen hundred times rarer than the one-‘t’ spelling interpreted.

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