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/ˌɪntərvˈin/ /ˌɪnərvˈin/ Listen

verb

Intervene v. t. To come between. (R.) "Self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates."

Intervene v. i. (past & past part. intervened; pres. part. intervening)

To come between, or to be between, persons or things; followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.

To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.

To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.

In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.

noun

Intervene n. A coming between; intervention; meeting. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... married all over again in due form if he suspected anything irregular, and so to save bother all around she assured him that she herself had made inquiry at the consulate and found that the marriage performed there was binding enough,—"unless the trust company wished to intervene as guardian of the minor and contest its validity on the ground of misrepresentation of Adelle's age," which, of ...

— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick

... desk with the end of his gold pencil, and watching the clock. The junior had no such misgivings—none of any kind. He had a game of polo that afternoon at three, and was chiefly concerned lest the day's work might intervene. The signing of similar papers had once kept him at the ...

— Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman • F. Hopkinson Smith

... they be subjected in a perfectly similar way to two terrifying agents, which are themselves perfectly similar, there are few who will not expect a perfect similarity in the running away, even though ten thousand years intervene between the original combination and its repetition." {153} Here certainly there is no coming into play of memory, more than in the pan of cream on two successive churning days, ...

— Unconscious Memory • Samuel Butler

... September, the anniversary of the declaration of national independence. In addition to the prerogatives commonly invested in his office, the president is authorized to supervise the judiciary, to nominate candidates for the higher ecclesiastical offices, to intervene in the enforcement of ecclesiastical decrees, papal bulls, &c., to exercise supervisory police powers, and to appoint the intendants of provinces and the governors of departments, who in turn appoint the ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 - "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" • Various

... existence of disembodied intelligences, and their power of communicating with the living. Yet he had not the courage to assign to them an essential part in his drama. The spirits hover round the outskirts of the action, but do not really or effectually intervene in it. The hero's belief in them, indeed, helps to bring about the conclusion; but the apparition which so potently works upon him is an admitted imposture, a pious fraud. Earlier in the play, two or three trivial and unnecessary miracles are introduced—just enough to hint at ...

— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer

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