Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-TER', v.t. [Fr. enterrer; en and terre, L. terra, the earth; Sp. enterrar; It. interrare.]

1. To bury; to deposit and cover in the earth; as, to inter a dead animal body.
2. To cover with earth. But it is used almost exclusively to denote the depositing and covering of dead animal bodies.

IN'TER-ACT, a. [inter and act.]

Intermediate employment or time; a short piece between others. Chesterfield.

IN-TER-AC'TION, n.

Intermediate action. I. Taylor.

IN-TER-A'GENT, n.

An intermediate agent. Kirby.

IN-TER-AM'NI-AN, a. [L. inter and amnis, river.]

Situated between rivers. Bryant.

IN-TER-AN'I-MATE, v.t.

To animate mutually. [Little used.] Donne.

IN-TER-BAS-TA'TION, n. [Sp. bastear, to baste.]

Patch-work. [Not in use.] Smith.

IN-TER'CA-LAR, or IN-TER'CA-LA-RY, a. [Fr. intercalaire; L. intercalarius; inter and calo, to call or proclaim.]

Inserted; an epithet given to the odd day inserted in leap-year. The twenty-ninth of February in leap-year is called the intercalary day. We read in Livy of an intercalary month.

IN'TER-CAL-ATE, v.t. [L. intercalo; inter and calo, to call.]

To insert an extraordinary day or other portion of time.

IN'TER-CAL-A-TED, pp.

Inserted.

IN'TER-CAL-A-TING, ppr.

Inserting.

IN-TER-CAL-A'TION, n. [L. intercalatio.]

The insertion of an odd or extraordinary day in the calendar, as, the 29th of February in leap-year.

IN-TER-CEDE', v.i. [L. intercedo; inter and cedo; literally, to move or pass between.]

1. To pass between. He supposes that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age in which he lived. Hale.
2. To mediate; to interpose; to make intercession; to act between parties with a view to reconcile those who differ or contend; usually followed by with. Calamy.
3. To plead in favor of one.

IN-TER-CED'ED, pp.

Mediated; interposed.

IN-TER-CED'ENT, a.

Passing between; mediating; pleading for.

IN-TER-CED'ER, n.

One who intercedes or interposes between parties, to effect a reconciliation; a mediator; an intercessor.

IN-TER-CED'ING, ppr.

Mediating; pleading.

IN-TER-CEL'LU-LAR, a.

Being between cells, or cellular; between or within something.

IN-TER-CEPT', v.t. [Fr. intercepter; L. interceptus, intercipio, to stop; inter and capio, to take.]

1. To take or seize on by the way; to stop on its passage; as, to intercept a letter. The prince was intercepted at Rome. The convoy was intercepted by a detachment of the enemy.
2. To obstruct; to stop in progress; as, to intercept rays of light; to intercept the current of a river, or a course of proceedings.
3. To stop, as a course or passing; as, to intercept a course. Dryden.
4. To interrupt communication with, or progress toward. While storms vindictive intercept the shore. Pope.
5. To take, include or comprehend between. Right ascension is an arch of the equator, reckoning toward the east, intercepted between the beginning of Aries, and the point of the equator which rises at the same time with the sun or star in a right sphere. Bailey.

IN-TER-CEPT'ED, pp.

Taken on the way; seized in progress; stopped.

IN-TER-CEPT'ER, n.

One who intercepts.

IN-TER-CEPT'ING, ppr.

Seizing on its passage; hindering from proceeding; comprehending between.

IN-TER-CEP'TION, n.

The act of seizing something on its passage; a stopping; obstruction of a course or proceeding; hinderance. Wotton.

IN-TER-CES'SION, n. [Fr. from L. intercessio, from intercedo. See Intercede.]

The act of interceding; mediation; interposition between parties at variance, with a view to reconciliation; prayer or solicitation to one party in favor of another, sometimes against another. Your intercession now is needless grown; / Retire, and let me speak with her alone. Dryden. He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. Is. liii.

IN-TER-CES'SION-AL, a.

Containing intercession, or entreaty. Encyc.