Word of the day 3 October 2026
verb coined here
un·in·ter·com·MIN·gle
To separate items that were fused into one vote, so each can be approved or rejected on its own.
An amendment would have unintercommingled them; the procedure does not allow one.
Etymologyun- + intercommingle. Reversative un-, as in untie and undo.
NoteGrammatically trivial, procedurally impossible: a statutory instrument can be approved or rejected, not amended. The word exists so the absence can be named.
To fuse unrelated items into one unamendable vote.
The technique.
The state of the items afterwards.
To separate them again.
The remedy, currently unavailable.