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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Interstice \In*ter"stice\ (?; 277), n.; pl {Interstices}. [L.
interstitium a pause, interval; inter between + sistere to
set fr stare to stand: cf F. interstice. See {Stand}.]
1. That which intervenes between one thing and another;
especially, a space between things closely set or between
the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a
crevice; a hole; an interval; as the interstices of a
wall.
2. An interval of time; specifically (R. C. Ch.), in the
plural, the intervals which the canon law requires between
the reception of the various degrees of orders
Nonobservance of the interstices . . . is a sin.
--Addis &
Arnold.
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