verb coined here
in·ter·com·MIN·gle
To fuse unrelated items into one unamendable vote, so that opposing one means appearing to defend the others.
They intercommingled the three bans into a single order and dared anyone to vote no.
Etymologyinter- + commingle. Com- already means “together”, so inter- says it twice; the redundancy is the point. The form is old: an intensive of commingle, “to mix together thoroughly”, in print since at least the 1840s. The new sense narrows it from mixing to bundling for a vote.
NoteThe verb of the family: what is done, by whom. The noun names the technique; this names the act, and keeps the agent in the sentence. The old verb said things were mixed; the new one says somebody mixed them, and when, and why the mixture cannot now be voted apart.
To fuse unrelated items into one unamendable vote.
The technique.
The state of the items afterwards.
To separate them again.
The remedy, currently unavailable.
Where this string was already doing work before it was put to this use. The sense below is the coinage; the spelling is not.
The form in its plain sense: mixed together thoroughly, a doubled intermingle. It turns up in print from 1847 to 2014 in Google Books, rarely but steadily, almost always as the participles. Nothing in it about votes, bundles or procedure.