Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-TER-COM'MON-ING, ppr.

Feeding at the same table, or using a common pasture; enjoying a common field with others.

IN-TER-COM-MU'NI-CA-BLE, a.

That may be mutually communicated.

IN-TER-COM-MU'NI-CA-TION, n.

Reciprocal communication.

IN-TER-COM-MU'NION, n. [inter and communion.]

Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.

IN-TER-COM-MU'NI-TY, n. [inter and community.]

A mutual communication or community; mutual freedom or exercise of religion; as, the intercommunity of pagan theology. Paley.

IN-TER-COM'MUN-NI-CATE, v.i. [inter and communicate.]

To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.

IN-TER-COST'AL, a. [Fr. from L. inter, between, and costa, a rib.]

Placed or lying between the ribs; as, an intercostal muscle, artery or vein. Encyc.

IN-TER-COST'AL, n.

A part lying between the ribs. Derham.

IN'TER-COURSE, n. [L. intercursus, intercurro; inter and curro, to run.]

1. Literally, a running or passing between. Hence,
2. Communication; commerce; connection by reciprocal dealings between persons or nations, either in common affairs and civilities, in trade, or correspondence by letters. We have an intercourse with neighbors and friends in mutual visits and in social concerns; nations and individuals have intercourse with foreign nations or individuals by an interchange of commodities, by purchase and sale, by treaties, contracts, &c.
3. Silent communication or exchange. This sweet intercourse / Of looks and smiles. Milton.

IN-TER-CUR', v.i. [L. intercurro.]

To intervene; to come in the mean time. Shelton.

IN-TER-CUR'RENCE, n. [L. intercurrens, intercurro.]

A passing or running between. Boyle.

IN-TER-CUR'RENT, a. [L. intercurrens.]

1. Running between or among. Boyle.
2. Occurring; intervening. Barrow.

IN-TER-CU-TA'NE-OUS, a. [L. inter and cutis, the skin.]

Being within or under the skin.

IN'TER-DEAL, n. [inter and deal.]

Mutual dealing; traffick. Spencer.

IN-TER-DE-PEND'ENCE, n.

Mutual dependence.

IN-TER-DE-PEND'ENT, a.

Mutually dependent.

IN'TER-DICT, n. [L. interdictum.]

1. Prohibition; a prohibiting order or decree.
2. A papal prohibition by which the clergy are restrained from performing divine service; a species of ecclesiastical censure. The pope has sometimes laid a whole kingdom under an interdict.
3. A papal prohibition by which persons are restrained from attending divine service, or prevented from enjoying some privilege.

IN-TER-DICT', v.t. [L. interdico, interdictum; inter and dico, to speak.]

1. To forbid; to prohibit. An act of congress interdicted the sailing of vessels from our ports. Our intercourse with foreign nations was interdicted.
2. To forbid communion; to cut off from the enjoyment of communion with a church. An archbishop may not only excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his vicar-general may do the same. Ayliffe.

IN-TER-DICT'ED, pp.

Forbid; prohibited.

IN-TER-DICT'ING, ppr.

Forbidding; prohibiting; cutting off from the enjoyment of some privilege.

IN-TER-DIC'TION, n. [Fr. from L. interdictio.]

The act of interdicting; prohibition; prohibiting decree; curse. Milton. Shak.

IN-TER-DICT'IVE, a.

Having power to prohibit.

IN-TER-DICT'O-RY, a.

Serving to prohibit.

IN-TER-E-QUI-NOC'TIAL, a. [inter and equinox.]

Coming between the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. Spring and autumn I have denominated equinoctial periods. Summer and winter I have called interequinoctial intervals. Balfour. Asiat. Res.

IN'TER-ESS, n. [for Interest, is obsolete.]