decussate

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In his famous dictionary Samuel Johnson notoriously, and gloriously, defined the word “network” as “any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2016

A cough, said he, is "a convulsion of the lungs, vellicated by some sharp serosity," and a network is "anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections."

From Time Magazine Archive

As a contrast in descriptive style, we would quote Dr. Johnson on network: “Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.”

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

Plato says, "He expressed him upon the Universe in the figure of the letter X. The next Power to the Supreme God Was decussated or figured in the shape of a Cross on Universe."

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

A network is anything reticulated or decussated, with interstices at equal distances between the intersections.

From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Kellogg, Brainerd