interpolate

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Star interpolators last week were Chief Inspector of State Railways Deputy Mario D'Annunzio, son of the posturing poet, and Deputy General Ezio Garibaldi, black-shirted grandson of Italy's red-shirted Liberator.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is quite possible that Matthew and Luke may have been unconscious of the contradiction: indeed the interpolation theory does not remove the difficulty, as the interpolators themselves must have been unconscious of it.

From Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion by Shaw, Bernard

Nevertheless we may be grateful to the interpolators, because, on the strength of these passages, Josephus was especially treasured through the Dark and Middle Ages, and he alone survived of the Hellenistic apologists.

From Josephus by Bentwich, Norman

On account of ἀρχεῖα in the succeeding clause, ἀρχείοις has been suggested as a substitute for the manuscript reading ἀρχαίοις, and so the interpolators of the genuine Epistle have actually written.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

These faults Pope has endeavoured, with more zeal than judgment, to transfer to his imagined in interpolators.

From Preface to Shakespeare by Johnson, Samuel