Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: IN-TER-MAR'RY-ING – IN-TERM'IN-ATE
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IN-TER-MAR'RY-ING, ppr.
Mutually giving and receiving in marriage; mutually connecting by marriage.
IN-TER-MEAN', n. [inter and mean.]
Interact; something done in the mean time. [Not used.] Todd.
IN-TER-ME-A'TION, n. [L. inter and meo, to flow.]
A flowing between. [Not in use.]
IN-TER-MED'DLE, v.i. [inter and meddle.]
To meddle in the affairs of others, in which one has no concern; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to intermix. The practice of Spain has been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Encyc.
IN-TER-MED'DLED, pp.
Interposed officiously; intruded.
IN-TER-MED'DLER, n.
One that interposes officiously; one who meddles, or intrudes into business to which he has no right. Swift.
IN-TER-MED'DLING, n.
Officious interposition. Hamilton.
IN-TER-MED'DLING, ppr.
Interposing officiously; intruding.
Interposition; intervention.
IN-TER-ME'DI-AL, a. [L. inter and medius, middle.]
Lying between; intervening; intervenient. Evelyn.
IN-TER-ME'DI-A-RY, n. [from intermediate.]
- Interposition; intervention. [Not much used.] Derham.
- Something interposed.
IN-TER-ME'DI-ATE, a. [Fr. intermediat; L. inter and medius, middle.]
Lying or being in the middle place or degree between two extremes; intervening; interposed; as, an intermediate space between hills or rivers; intermediate colors. Man has an intermediate nature and rank between angels and brutes.
IN-TER-ME'DI-ATE, n.
In chimistry, a substance which is the intermedium or means of chimical affinity, as an alkali, which renders oil combinable with water.
IN-TER-ME'DI-ATE-LY, adv.
By way of intervention.
Intervention; common means. Cheyne.
IN-TER-ME'DI-UM, n.
- Intermediate space. Ash.
- An intervening agent. Cowper.
IN-TER-MELL', v.t. [or v. i.; Fr. entremĂȘler.]
To intermix or intermeddle. [Not in use.] Marston. Fisher.
IN-TER'MENT, n. [from inter.]
The act of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture.
IN-TER-MEN'TION, v.t.
To mention among other things; to include. [Not used.]
IN-TER-MI-CA'TION, n. [L. intermico; inter and mico, to shine.]
A shining between or among.
IN-TER-MI-GRA'TION, n. [L. inter and migro, to migrate.]
Reciprocal migration; removal from one country to another by men or tribes which take the place each of the other. Hale
IN-TERM'IN-A-BLE, a. [L. in and terminus, end; termino, to end.]
Boundless; endless; admitting no limit; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings. Milton uses this word as an appellation of the Godhead.
The state of being endless.
IN-TER'MIN-A-BLY, adv.
Without end or limit
IN-TERM'IN-ATE, a. [L. interminatus, intermino.]
Unbounded; unlimited; endless; as, interminate sleep. Chapman.