Intendedly – Interpreter

Intendedly

INTENDEDLY, adverb With intention or purpose; by design.

Intender

INTEND'ER, participle passive One who intends.

Intendiment

INTEND'IMENT, noun Attention; understanding; consideration.

Intending

INTEND'ING, participle present tense Meaning; designing; purposing.

1. Stretching; distending. [Little used.]

Intendment

INTEND'MENT, noun Intention; design; in law, the true meaning of a person or of a law, or of any legal instrument. In the construction of statutes or of contracts, the intendment of the same is, if possible, to be ascertained, that is, the true meaning or intention of the legislator or contracting party.

Intenerate

INTEN'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin in and tener, tender.]

To make tender; to soften.

Autumn vigor gives,

Equal, intenerating, milky grain.

Intenerated

INTEN'ERATED, participle passive Made tender or soft.

Intenerating

INTEN'ERATING, participle present tense Making tender.

Inteneration

INTENERA'TION, noun The act of making soft or tender.

[Intenerate and its derivatives are little used.]

Intense

INTENSE, adjective intens'. [Latin intensus, from intendo, to stretch.]

1. Literally, strained, stretched; hence, very close, strict, as when the mind is fixed or bent on a particular subject; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

2. Raised to a high degree; violent; vehement; as intense heat.

3. Very severe or keen; as intense cold.

4. Vehement; ardent; as intense phrases in language.

5. Extreme in degree.

The doctrine of the atonement supposes that the sins of men were so laid on Christ, that his sufferings were inconceivably intense and overwhelming.

6. Kept on the stretch; anxiously attentive; opposed to remiss.

Intensely

INTENSELY, adverb intens'ly. To an extreme degree; vehemently; as a furnace intensely heated; weather intensely cold.

1. Attentively; earnestly.

Intenseness

INTENSENESS, noun intens'ness. The state of being strained or stretched; intensity; as the intenseness of a cord.

1. The state of being raised or concentrated to a great degree; extreme violence; as the intenseness of heat or cold.

2. Extreme closeness; as the intenseness of study or thought.

Intension

INTEN'SION, noun [Latin intensio.] A straining, stretching or bending; the state of being strained; as the intension of a musical string.

1. Increase of power or energy of any quality; opposed to remission.

Intensity

INTENS'ITY, noun The state of being strained or stretched; intenseness, as of a musical chord.

1. The state of being raised to a great degree; extreme violence; as the intensity of heat.

2. Extreme closeness; as intensity of application.

3. Excess; extreme degree; as the intensity of guilt.

Intensive

INTENS'IVE, adjective Stretched, or admitting of extension.

1. Intent; unremitted; assiduous; as intensive circumspection.

2. Serving to give force or emphasis; as an intensive particle or preposition.

Intensively

INTENS'IVELY, adverb By increase of degree; in a manner to give force.

Intent

INTENT', adjective [Latin intentus, from intendo. See Intend.]

Literally, having the mind strained or bent on an object; hence, fixed closely; sedulously applied; eager in pursuit of an object; anxiously diligent; formerly with to, but now with on; as intent on business or pleasure; intent on the acquisition of science.

Be intent and solicitous to take up the meaning of the speaker--

INTENT', noun Literally, the stretching of the mind towards an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim; applied to persons or things.

The principal intent of Scripture is to deliver the laws of duties supernatural.

I ask therefore, for what intent ye have sent for me? Acts 10:29.

To all intents, in all senses; whatever may be designed.

He was miserable to all intents and purposes.

Intention

INTEN'TION, noun [Latin intentio. See Intend.]

1. Primarily, a stretching or bending of the mind towards an object; hence, uncommon exertion of the intellectual faculties; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.

Intention is when the mind, with great earnestness and of choice, fixes its view on any idea, considers it on every side, and will not be called off by the ordinary solicitation of other ideas.

2. Design; purpose; the fixed direction of the mind to a particular object, or a determination to act in a particular manner. It is my intention to proceed to Paris.

3. End or aim; the object to be accomplished.

In chronical distempers, the principal intention is to restore the tone of the solid parts.

4. The state of being strained. [See Intension.]

Intentional

INTEN'TIONAL, adjective Intended; designed; done with design or purpose. The act was intentional not accidental.

Intentionally

INTEN'TIONALLY, adverb By design; of purpose; not casually.

Intentioned

INTEN'TIONED, in composition; as well-intentioned, having good designs, honest in purpose; ill-intentioned, having ill designs.

Intentive

INTENT'IVE, adjective Attentive; having the mind close applied.

[This word is nearly superseded by attentive.]

Intentively

INTENT'IVELY, adverb Closely; with close application.

Intentiveness

INTENT'IVENESS, noun Closeness of attention or application of mind.

Intently

INTENT'LY, adverb With close attention or application; with eagerness or earnestness; as the mind intently directed to an object; the eyes intently fixed; the man is intently employed in the study of geology.

Intentness

INTENT'NESS, noun The state of being intent; close application; constant employment of the mind.

Inter

IN'TER, a Latin preposition, signifying among or between; used as a prefix.

INTER', verb transitive [Latin terra, the earth.]

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.

Interact

IN'TERACT, noun [inter and act.] Intermediate employment or time; a short piece between others.

Interamnian

INTERAM'NIAN, adjective [Latin inter and amnis, river.]

Situated between rivers.

Interanimate

INTERAN'IMATE, verb transitive To animate mutually. [Little used.]

Interbastation

INTERBASTA'TION, noun Patch-work. [Not in use.]

Intercalar

INTER'CALAR

INTER'CALARY, adjective [Latin 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.

Intercalary

INTER'CALARY, a. [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.

Intercalate

IN'TERCALATE, verb transitive [Latin intercalo; inter and calo, to call.]

To insert an extraordinary day or other portion of time.

Intercalated

IN'TERCALATED, participle passive Inserted.

Intercalating

IN'TERCALATING, participle present tense Inserting.

Intercalation

INTERCALA'TION, noun [Latin intercalatio.] The insertion of an odd or extraordinary day in the calendar, as the 29th of February in leap year.

Intercede

INTERCE'DE, verb intransitive [Latin 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.

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.

3. To please in favor of one.

Intercedent

INTERCE'DENT, adjective Passing between; mediating; pleading for.

Interceder

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

Interceding

INTERCE'DING, participle present tense Mediating; pleading.

Intercept

INTERCEPT', verb transitive [Latin 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.

4. To interrupt communication with, or progress towards.

While storms vindictive intercept the shore.

5. To take, include or comprehend between.

Right ascension is an arch of the equator, reckoning towards 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.

Intercepted

INTERCEPT'ED, participle passive Taken on the way; seized in progress; stopped.

Intercepter

INTERCEPT'ER, noun One who intercepts.

Intercepting

INTERCEPT'ING, participle present tense Seizing on its passage; hindering from proceeding; comprehending between.

Interception

INTERCEP'TION, noun The act of seizing something on its passage; a stopping; obstruction of a course or proceeding; hinderance.

Intercession

INTERCES'SION, noun [Latin 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.

He bore the sin of many, and made intercession

for the transgressors. Isaiah 53:12.

Intercessor

INTERCES'SOR, noun [Latin See intercede.]

1. A mediator; one who interposes between parties at variance, with a view to reconcile them; one who pleads in behalf of another.

2. A bishop who, during a vacancy of the see, administers the bishopric till a successor is elected.

Intercessory

INTERCES'SORY, adjective Containing intercession; interceding.

Interchain

INTERCHA'IN, verb transitive [inter and chain.] To chain; to link together.

Interchained

INTERCHA'INED, participle passive Chained together.

Interchaining

INTERCHA'INING, participle present tense Chaining or fastening together.

Interchanaged

INTERCHANAGED, participle passive Mutually exchanged; reciprocated.

Interchange

INTERCHANGE, verb transitive [inter and change.]

1. To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; to interchange cares or duties.

I shall interchange

My waned state of Henry's regal crown.

2. To succeed alternately.

IN'TERCHANGE, noun Mutual change, each giving and receiving; exchange; permutation of commodities; barter; as the interchange of commodities between New York and Liverpool.

1. Alternate succession; as the interchange of light and darkness.

Sweet interchange

Of hill and valley, rivers, woods and plains.

2. A mutual giving and receiving; reciprocation; as an interchange of civilities or kind offices.

Interchangeable

INTERCHANGEABLE, adjective That may be interchanged; that may be given and taken mutually.

1. Following each other in alternate succession; as the four interchangeable seasons.

Interchangeablenes

INTERCHANGEABLENESS, noun The state of being interchangeable.

Interchangeably

INTERCHANGEABLY, adverb Alternately; by reciprocation; in a manner by which each gives and received.

Interchangement

INTERCHANGEMENT, noun Exchange; mutual transfer. [Little used.]

Interchanging

INTERCHANGING, participle present tense Mutually giving and receiving; taking each other's place successively; reciprocating.

Intercident

INTERCI'DENT, adjective [Latin intercido.] Falling or coming between.

Intercipient

INTERCIP'IENT, adjective [Latin intercipiens. See Intercept.]

Intercepting; seizing by the way; stopping.

INTERCIP'IENT, noun He or that which intercepts or stops on the passage.

Intercision

INTERCIS'ION, noun s as z. [Latin intercido; inter and coedo, to cut.]

Interruption. [Little used.]

Interclude

INTERCLU'DE, verb transitive [Latin intercludo; inter and cludo, to shut.]

1. To shut from a place or course by something intervening; to intercept.

2. To cut off; to interrupt.

Intercluded

INTERCLU'DED, participle passive Intercepted; interrupted.

Intercluding

INTERCLU'DING, participle present tense Interrupting.

Interclusion

INTERCLU'SION, noun s as z. Interception; a stopping.

Intercolumniation

INTERCOLUMNIA'TION, noun [Latin inter and columna, a column.]

In architecture, the space between two columns. By the rules of the art, this should be in proportion to the highth and bulk of the columns.

Intercommon

INTERCOM'MON, verb intransitive [inter and common.]

1. To feet at the same table.

2. To graze cattle in a common pasture; to use a common with others, or to possess or enjoy the right of feeding in common.

Common because of vicinage, is where the inhabitants of two townships contiguous to each other, have usually intercommoned with one another.

Intercommoning

INTERCOM'MONING, participle present tense Feeding at the same table, or using a common pasture; enjoying a common field with others.

Intercommunicate

INTERCOMMU'NICATE, verb intransitive [inter and communicate.]

To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.

Intercommunication

INTERCOMMU'NICATION, noun Reciprocal communication.

Intercommunion

INTERCOMMU'NION, noun [inter and communion.]

Mutual communion; as an intercommunion of deities.

Intercommunity

INTERCOMMU'NITY, noun [inter and community.] A mutual communication or community; mutual freedom or exercise of religion; as the intercommunity of pagan theology.

Intercostal

INTERCOST'AL, adjective [Latin inter, between, and costa, a rib.]

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

INTERCOST'AL, noun A part lying between the ribs.

Intercourse

IN'TERCOURSE, noun [Latin intercursus, intercurro; inter and curro, to run.] Literally, a running or passing between. Hence,

1. 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, etc.

2. Silent communication or exchange.

This sweet intercourse

Of looks and smiles.

Intercur

INTERCUR', verb intransitive [Latin intercurro.]

To intervene; to come in and the mean time.

Intercurrence

INTERCUR'RENCE, noun [Latin intercurrens, intercurro.]

A passing or running between.

Intercurrent

INTERCUR'RENT, adjective [Latin intercurrens.]

1. Running between or among.

2. Occurring; intervening.

Intercutaneous

INTERCUTA'NEOUS, adjective [Latin inter and cutis, the skin.]

Being within or under the skin.

Interdeal

IN'TERDEAL, noun [inter and deal.] Mutual dealing; traffick.

Interdict

INTERDICT', verb transitive [Latin 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.

IN'TERDICT, noun [Latin interdictum.] Prohibition; a prohibiting order or decree.

1. 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

2. A papal prohibition by which persons are restrained from attending divine service, or prevented from enjoying some privilege.

Interdicted

INTERDICT'ED, participle passive Forbid; prohibited.

Interdicting

INTERDICT'ING, participle present tense Forbidding; prohibiting; cutting off from the enjoyment of some privilege.

Interdiction

INTERDIC'TION, noun [Latin interdictio.] The act of interdicting; prohibition; prohibiting decree; curse.

Interdictive

INTERDICT'IVE, adjective Having power to prohibit.

Interdictory

INTERDICT'ORY, adjective Serving to prohibit.

Interduce

IN'TERDUCE, noun In carpentry, a small timber between summers.

Interequinoctial

INTEREQUINOC'TIAL, adjective [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.

Interess

INTERESS, for interest, is obsolete.

Interest

IN'TEREST, verb transitive [Latin inter and esse.]

1. To concern; to affect; to excite emotion or passion, usually in favor, but sometimes against a person or thing. A narration of suffering interests us in favor of the sufferer. We are interested in the story or in the fate of the sufferer. We are interested to know the result, issue or event of an enterprise. It is followed by in or for. We are interested in the narration, but for the sufferer.

2. To give a share in. Christ, by his atonement, has interested believers in the blessings of the covenant of grace.

3. To have a share.

We are not all interested in the public funds, but we are all interested in the happiness of a free government.

4. To engage; as, to interest one in our favor.

To interest one's self, is to take a share or concern in.

IN'TEREST, noun Concern; advantage; good; as private interest; public interest

Divisions hinder the common interest and public good.

1. Influence over others. They had now lost their interest at court.

He knew his interest sufficient to procure the office.

2. Share; portion; part; participation in value. He has parted with his interest in the stocks. He has an interest in a manufactory of cotton goods.

3. Regard to private profit.

'Tis interest calls off all her sneaking train.

4. Premium paid for the use of money; the profit per cent derived from money lent, or property used by another person, or from debts remaining unpaid. Commercial states have a legal rate of interest Debts on book bear an interest after the expiration of the credit. Courts allow interest in many cases where it is not stipulated. A higher rate of interest than that which the law allows, is called usury.

Simple interest is that which arises from the principal sum only.

Compound interest is that which arises from the principal with the interest added; interest on interest

5. Any surplus advantage.

With all speed,

you shall have your desire with interest

Interested

IN'TERESTED, participle passive Made a sharer; as one interested in the funds.

1. Affected; moved; having the passions excited; as one interested by a story.

2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected; as an interested witness.

Interesting

IN'TERESTING, participle present tense Giving a share or concern; as by interesting one in a voyage, or in a banking company.

1. Engaging the affections; as by interesting a person in one's favor.

2. Engaging the attention or curiosity; exciting emotions or passions; as an interesting story.

Interfere

INTERFE'RE, verb intransitive [Latin inter and fero, to bear, or ferio, to strike.]

1. To interpose; to intermeddle; to enter into or take a part in the concerns of others. It is prudence not to interfere in party disputes, but from necessity.

2. To clash; to come in collision; to be in opposition. The claims of two nations may interfere

3. A horse is said to interfere when one hoof or shoe strikes against the fetlock of the opposite leg, and breaks the skin or injures the flesh.

Interference

INTERFE'RENCE, noun Interposition; an intermeddling; mediation.

1. A clashing or collision.

2. A striking of one foot against the other.

Interfering

INTERFE'RING, participle present tense Interposing; meddling.

1. Clashing; coming in collision.

2. Striking one foot against the fetlock of the opposite leg.

INTERFE'RING, noun Interference.

Interfluent

INTER'FLUENT

INTER'FLUOUS, adjective [Latin interfluo; inter and fluo, to flow.]

Flowing between.

Interfluous

INTER'FLUOUS, a. [L. interfluo; inter and fluo, to flow.]

Flowing between.

Interfoliaceous

INTERFOLIA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin inter and folium, a leaf.]

Being between opposite leaves, but placed alternately with them; as interfoliaceous flowers or peduncles.

Interfulgent

INTERFULG'ENT, adjective [Latin inter and fulgens, shining.]

Shining between.

Interfused

INTERFU'SED, adjective s as z. [Latin interfusus; inter and fundo, to pour.]

Poured or spread between.

The ambient air, wide interfused

Embracing round this florid earth.

Interim

IN'TERIM, noun [Latin] The mean time; time intervening.

Interior

INTE'RIOR, adjective [Latin comparative formed from inter or intra, in or within.]

1. Internal; being within any limits, inclosure or substance; inner; opposed to exterior or superficial; as the interior apartments of a house; the interior ornaments; the interior surface of a hollow ball, the interior parts of the earth.

2. Inland; remote from the limits, frontier or shore; as the interior parts of a country, state or kingdom.

INTE'RIOR, noun The internal part of a thing; the inside.

1. The inland part of a country, state or kingdom.

Interjacency

INTERJA'CENCY, noun [Latin interjacens; inter and jacens, lying.]

1. A lying between; a being between; intervention; as the interjacency of the Tweed between England and Scotland.

2. That which lies between. [Little used.]

Interjacent

INTERJA'CENT, adjective [Latin interjacens, supra.] Lying or being between; intervening; as interjacent isles.

Interject

INTERJECT', verb transitive [Latin interjicio; inter and jacio, to throw.]

To throw between; to throw in between other things; to insert.

A circumstance--may be interjected even between a relative word and that to which it relates.

Interjected

INTERJECT'ED, participle passive Thrown in or inserted between.

Interjecting

INTERJECT'ING, participle present tense Throwing or inserting between.

Interjection

INTERJEC'TION, noun The act of throwing between.

1. A word in speaking or writing, thrown in between words connected in construction, to express some emotion or passion.

'These were delightful days, but, alas, they are no more.' [See Exclamation.]

Interjectional

INTERJECT'IONAL, adjective Thrown in between other words or phrases; as an interjectional remark.

Interjoin

INTERJOIN', verb transitive [inter and join.] To join mutually; to intermarry. [Little used.]

Interknowledge

INTERKNOWL'EDGE, noun [inter and knowledge.]

Mutual knowledge. [Little used.]

Interlace

INTERLA'CE, verb transitive To intermix; to put or insert one thing with another.

They interlaced some errors.

The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue.

Interlaced

INTERLA'CED, participle passive Intermixed; inserted between other things.

Interlacing

INTERLA'CING, participle present tense Intermixing; inserting between.

Interlapse

INTERLAPSE, noun interlaps'. [inter and lapse.]

The lapse or flow of time between two events.

Interlard

INTERL'ARD, verb transitive

1. Primarily, to mix fat with lean; hence, to interpose; to insert between.

2. To mix; to diversify by mixture.

Interlarded

INTERL'ARDED, participle passive Interposed; inserted between; mixed.

Interlarding

INTERL'ARDING, participle present tense Inserting between; intermixing.

Interleaf

IN'TERLEAF, noun [See Leaf.] A leaf inserted between other leaves; a blank leaf inserted.

Interleave

INTERLE'AVE, verb transitive [inter and leaf.] To insert a leaf; to insert a blank leaf or blank leaves in a book, between other leaves.

Interleaved

INTERLE'AVED, participle passive Inserted between leaves, or having blank leaves inserted between other leaves.

Interleaving

INTERLE'AVING, participle present tense Inserting blank leaves between other leaves.

Interline

INTERLI'NE, verb transitive [inter and line.] To write in alternate lines; as, to interline Latin and English.

1. To write between lines already written or printed, for the purpose of adding to or correcting what is written.

Interlinear

INTERLIN'EAR

INTERLIN'EARY, adjective [inter and linear.] Written between lines before written or printed.

INTERLIN'EARY, noun A book having insertions between the leaves.

Interlineary

INTERLIN'EARY, a. [inter and linear.] Written between lines before written or printed.

INTERLIN'EARY, n. A book having insertions between the leaves.

Interlineation

INTERLINEA'TION, noun [inter and lineation.]

1. The act of inserting words or lines between lines before written or printed.

2. The words, passage or line inserted between lines before written or printed.

Interlined

INTERLI'NED, participle passive Written between lines; as an interlined word.

1. Containing a line or lines written between lines; as an interlined manuscript.

Interlining

INTERLI'NING, participle present tense Writing between lines already written or printed.

INTERLI'NING, noun Correction or alteration by writing between the lines.

Interlink

INTERLINK', verb transitive [inter and link.] To connect by uniting links; to join one chain to another.

Interlinked

INTERLINK'ED, participle passive Connected by union of links; joined.

Interlinking

INTERLINK'ING, participle present tense Connecting by uniting links; joining.

Interlocation

INTERLOCA'TION, noun A placing between; interposition.

Interlocution

INTERLOCU'TION, noun [Latin interlocutio; inter and locutio, loquor, to speak.]

1. Dialogue; conference; interchange of speech.

2. In law, an intermediate act or decree before final decision.

Interlocutor

INTERLOC'UTOR, noun [Latin interloquor, supra.]

1. One who speaks in dialogue; a dialogist.

2. In Scots law, an interlocutory judgment or sentence.

Interlocutory

INTERLOC'UTORY, adjective

1. Consisting of dialogue.

There are several interlocutory discourses in the holy Scriptures.

2. In law, intermediate; not final or definitive. An order, sentence, decree or judgment, given in an intermediate stage of a cause, or on some intermediate question before the final decision, is called interlocutory; as a decree in chancery referring a question of fact to a court of law, or a judgment on default in a court of law.

Interlope

INTERLO'PE, verb intransitive [inter and Eng. to leap. See Leap.]

To run between parties and intercept the advantage that one should gain from the other; to traffick without a proper license; to forestall; to prevent right.

Interloper

INTERLO'PER, noun One who runs into business to which he has no right; one who interferes wrongfully; one who enters a country or place to trade without license.

Interloping

INTERLO'PING, participle present tense Interfering wrongfully.

Interlucate

INTERLU'CATE, verb transitive To let in light by cutting away branches of trees.

Interlucation

INTERLUCA'TION, noun The act of thinning a wood to let in light.

Interlucent

INTERLU'CENT, adjective [Latin interlucens; inter and luceo, to shine.]

Shining between.

Interlude

IN'TERLUDE, noun [Latin inter and ludus, play.]

An entertainment exhibited on the state between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to amuse the spectators, while the actors take breath and shift their dress, or the scenes and decorations are changed. In ancient tragedy, the chorus sung the interludes. In modern times, interludes consist of songs, feats of activity, dances, concerts of music, etc.

Interluder

IN'TERLUDER, noun One that performs in an interlude.

Interluency

INTERLU'ENCY, noun [Latin interluens, interluo, to flow between.]

A flowing between; water interposed. [Little used.]

Interlunar

INTERLU'NAR

INTERLU'NARY, adjective [Latin inter and luna, the moon.] Belonging to the time when the moon, at or near its conjunction with the sun, is invisible.

Interlunary

INTERLU'NARY, a. [L. inter and luna, the moon.] Belonging to the time when the moon, at or near its conjunction with the sun, is invisible.

Intermarriage

INTERMAR'RIAGE, noun [inter and marriage.] Marriage between two families, where each takes one and gives another.

Intermarried

INTERMAR'RIED, participle passive Mutually connected by marriage.

Intermarry

INTERMAR'RY, verb intransitive [inter and marry.]

1. To marry one and give another in marriage; as two families.

2. To marry some of each order, family, tribe or nation with the other.

About the middle of the fourth century from the building of Rome, it was declared lawful for nobles and plebeians to intermarry

Intermarrying

INTERMAR'RYING, participle present tense Mutually giving and receiving in marriage; mutually connecting by marriage.

Intermean

IN'TERMEAN, noun [inter and mean.] Interact; something done in the mean time. [Not used.]

Intermeation

INTERMEA'TION, noun [Latin inter and meo, to flow.]

A flowing between. [Not in use.]

Intermeddle

INTERMED'DLE, verb intransitive [inter and meddle.] To meddle in the affairs of others, in which one has no concern; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly.

The practice of Spain has been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states.

Intermeddler

INTERMED'DLER, noun One that interposes officiously; one who meddles, or intrudes into business to which he has no right.

Intermeddling

INTERMED'DLING, participle present tense Interposing officiously; intruding.

INTERMED'DLING, noun Officious interposition.

Intermedial

INTERME'DIAL, adjective [Latin inter and medius, middle.]

Lying between; intervening; intervenient.

Intermediary

INTERME'DIARY, noun [from intermediate.]

1. Interposition; intervention. [Not much used.]

2. Something interposed.

Intermediate

INTERME'DIATE, adjective [Latin 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.

INTERME'DIATE, noun In chimistry, a substance which is the intermedium or means of chimical affinity, as an alkali, which renders oil combinable with water.

Intermediately

INTERME'DIATELY, adverb By way of intervention.

Intermediation

INTERMEDIA'TION, noun Intervention; common means.

Intermedium

INTERME'DIUM, noun Intermediate space.

1. An intervening agent.

Intermell

INTERMELL', verb transitive or i. To intermix or intermeddle. [Not in use.]

Interment

INTER'MENT, noun [from inter.] The act of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture.

Intermention

INTERMEN'TION, verb transitive To mention among other things; to include. [Not used.]

Intermication

INTERMICA'TION, noun [Latin intermico; inter and mico, to shine.]

A shining between or among.

Intermigration

INTERMIGRA'TION, noun [Latin 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.

Interminable

INTERM'INABLE, adjective [Latin 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.

Interminate

INTERM'INATE, adjective [Latin interminatus, intermino.]

Unbounded; unlimited; endless; as interminate sleep.

INTERM'INATE, verb transitive [Latin interminor.] To menace. [Not used.]

Intermination

INTERMINA'TION, noun [Latin interminor, to menace or forbid.]

A menace or threat. [Not used.]

Intermingle

INTERMIN'GLE, verb transitive [inter and mingle.]

To mingle or mix together; to put some things with others.

INTERMIN'GLE, verb intransitive To be mixed or incorporated.

Intermingled

INTERMIN'GLED, participle passive Intermixed.

There are trees and intermingled temples rise.

Intermingling

INTERMIN'GLING, participle present tense Mingling or mixing together.

Intermission

INTERMIS'SION, noun [Latin intermissio. See Intermit.]

1. Cessation for a time; pause; intermediate stop; as, to labor without intermission; service or business will begin after an intermission of one hour.

2. Intervenient time.

3. The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission or abatement of fever.

4. The state of being neglected; disuse; as of words. [Little used.]

Intermissive

INTERMIS'SIVE, adjective Coming by fits or after temporary cessations; not continual.

Intermit

INTERMIT', verb transitive [Latin intermitto; inter and mitto, to send.]

To cause to cease for a time; to interrupt; to suspend.

Pray to the gods, to intermit the plague

That needs must light on this ingratitude.

INTERMIT', verb intransitive To cease for a time; to go off at intervals; as a fever. A tertian fever intermits every other day. The pulse sometimes intermits for a second of time.

Intermitted

INTERMIT'TED, participle passive Caused to cease for a time; suspended.

Intermittent

INTERMIT'TENT, adjective Ceasing at intervals; as an intermittent fever.

INTERMIT'TENT, noun A fever which entirely subsides or ceases at certain intervals. The ague and fever is called an intermittent

Intermitting

INTERMIT'TING, participle present tense Ceasing for a time; pausing.

1. Causing to cease.

Intermittingly

INTERMIT'TINGLY, adverb With intermissions; at intervals.

Intermix

INTERMIX', verb transitive [inter and mix.] To mix together; to put some things with others; to intermingle.

In yonder-spring of roses, intermix'd

With myrtle, find what to redress 'till noon.

INTERMIX', verb intransitive To be mixed together; to be intermingled.

Intermixed

INTERMIX'ED, participle passive Mingled together.

Intermixing

INTERMIX'ING, participle present tense Intermingling.

Intermixture

INTERMIX'TURE, noun A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed.

1. Admixture; something additional mingled in a mass.

In this height of impiety there wanted not an intermixture of levity and folly.

Intermontane

INTERMONT'ANE, adjective [Latin inter and montanus, mons, a mountain.]

Between mountains; as intermontane soil.

Intermundane

INTERMUND'ANE, adjective [Latin inter and mundanus, mundus, the world.]

Being between worlds or between orb and orb; as intermundane spaces.

Intermural

INTERMU'RAL, adjective [Latin inter and muralis, murus, a wall.]between walls.

Intermuscular

INTERMUSC'ULAR, adjective [inter and muscle.] Between the muscles.

Intermutation

INTERMUTA'TION, noun [inter and mutation.]

Interchange; mutual or reciprocal change.

Intermutual

INTERMU'TUAL, for mutual, is an illegitimate word.

Intern

INTERN', adjective Internal. [Not much used.]

Internal

INTERN'AL, adjective [Latin internus.] Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; not external. We speak of the internal parts of a body, of a bone, of the earth, etc. internal excellence is opposed to external. The internal peace of man, is peace of mind or conscience. The internal evidence of the divine origin of the Scriptures, is the evidence which arises from the excellence of its precepts and their adaptation to the condition of man, or from other peculiarities.

1. Pertaining to the heart.

With our Savior, internal purity is every thing.

2. Intrinsic; real; as the internal rectitude of actions.

3. Confined to a country; domestic; not foreign; as the internal trade of a state or kingdom; internal troubles or dissensions; internal war. internal taxes are taxes on the lands and other property within a state or kingdom; opposed to external taxes.

Internally

INTERN'ALLY, adverb Inwardly; within the body; beneath the surface.

1. Mentally; intellectually.

2. Spiritually.

International

INTERNA'TIONAL, adjective [inter and national.] Existing and regulating the mutual intercourse between different nations; as international law.

Internecine

INTERNE'CINE, adjective [Latin internecinus, interneco, to kill; inter and neco.] Deadly; destructive. [Little used.]

Internecion

INTERNE'CION, noun [Latin internecio.]

Mutual slaughter or destruction. [Little used.]

Internection

INTERNEC'TION, noun Connection. [Useless.]

Internode

IN'TERNODE, noun [Latin internodium; inter and nodus, knot.

In botany, the space between two joints of a plant.

Internuncio

INTERNUN'CIO, noun [Latin internuncius; inter and nuncius, a messenger.]

A messenger between two parties.

Interossealseous

INTEROS'SEAL'SEOUS, adjective [Latin inter and os, a bone.] Situated between bones; as an interosseous ligament.

Interpeal

INTERPE'AL, verb transitive [Latin interpello.] To interrupt. [Not used.]

Interpel

INTERPEL', verb transitive To set forth. [Not used.]

Interpellation

INTERPELLA'TION, noun [Latin interpellatio, interpello; inter and pello, to drive or thrust.] A summons; a citation.

1. Interruption.

2. An earnest address; intercession.

Interplead

INTERPLE'AD, verb intransitive [inter and plead.] In law, to discuss a point incidentally happening, before the principal cause can be tried.

Interpleader

INTERPLE'ADER, noun A bill of interpleader in chancery, is where a person owes a debt or rent to one of the parties in suit, but, till the determination of it, he knows not to which, and he desired that they may interplead or settle their claims between themselves, that he may be safe in the payment.

Interpledge

INTERPLEDGE, verb transitive interplej'. To give and take as a mutual pledge.

Interpoint

INTERPOINT', verb transitive To point; to distinguish by stops or marks.

Interpolate

IN'TERPOLATE, verb transitive [Latin interpolo; inter and polio, to polish.]

1. To renew; to begin again; to carry on with intermission; as a succession of interpolated motions.

2. To foist in; to insert, as a spurious word or passage in a manuscript or book; to add a spurious word or passage to the original.

The Athenians were put in possession of Salamis by another law which was cited by Solon, or as some think, interpolated by him for that purpose.

Interpolated

IN'TERPOLATED, participle passive Inserted or added to the original.

Interpolating

IN'TERPOLATING, participle present tense Foisting in a spurious word or passage.

Interpolation

INTERPOLA'TION, noun The act of foisting a word or passage into a manuscript or book.

1. A spurious word or passage inserted in the genuine writings of an author.

I have changed the situation of some of the Latin verses, and made some interpolations.

2. In mathematics, that branch of analysis, which treats of the methods by which, when a series of quantities succeeding each other, and formed all according to some determinate law, are given, others subject to the same law may be interposed between them.

Interpolator

IN'TERPOLATOR, noun [Latin] One who foists into a book or manuscript, spurious words or passages; one who adds something to genuine writings.

Interpolish

INTERPOL'ISH, verb transitive To polish between.

Interpone

INTERPO'NE, verb transitive [Latin inter and pono.] To set or insert between.

[Not in use.]

Interposal

INTERPO'SAL, noun s as z. [from interpose.]

1. The act of interposing; interposition; interference; agency between two persons.

2. Intervention; a coming or being between.

Interpose

INTERPO'SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin interpono, interpositum; inter and pono, to place.]

1. The act of interposing; interposition; interference; agency between two persons.

2. To place between or among; to thrust in; to intrude, as an obstruction, interruption or inconvenience.

What watchful cares do interpose themselves

Betwixt your eyes and night.

Human frailty will too often interpose itself among persons of the holiest function.

3. To offer, as aid or services, for relief or the adjustment of differences. The emperor interposed his aid or services to reconcile the contending parties.

The common Father of mankind seasonably interposed his hand and rescued miserable man--

INTERPO'SE, verb intransitive To step in between parties at variance; to mediate. The prince interposed and made peace.

1. To put in by way of interruption.

But, interposes Eleutherius, this objection may be made against almost any hypothesis.

INTERPO'SE, noun Interposal. [Not used.]

Interposed

INTERPO'SED, participle passive Placed between or among; thrust in.

Interposer

INTERPO'SER, noun One that interposes or comes between others; a mediator or agent between parties.

Interposing

INTERPO'SING, participle present tense Placing between; coming between; offering aid or services.

Interposit

INTERPOS'IT, noun A place of deposit between one commercial city or country and another.

Interposition

INTERPOSI'TION, noun [Latin interpositio.]

1. A being, placing or coming between; intervention; as the interposition of the Baltic sea between Germany and Sweden. The interposition of the moon between the earth and the sun occasions a solar eclipse.

2. Intervenient agency; as the interposition of the magistrate in quieting sedition. How many evidences have we of divine interposition in favor of good men!

3. Mediation; agency between parties. By the interposition of a common friend, the parties have been reconciled.

4. Any thing interposed.

Interposure

INTERPO'SURE, noun Interposal. [Not in use.]

Interpret

INTER'PRET, verb transitive [Latin interpretor, from interpres.]

1. To explain the meaning or words to a person who does not understand them; to expound; to translate unintelligible words into intelligible ones; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman.

--Immanuel, which being interpreted, signified, God with us. Matthew 1:23.

2. To explain or unfold the meaning of predictions, vision, dreams or enigmas; to expound and lay open what is concealed from the understanding; as, Joseph interpreted the dream of Pharaoh.

3. To decipher.

4. To explain something not understood; as, to interpret looks or signs.

5. To define; to explain words by other words in the same language.

Interpretable

INTER'PRETABLE, adjective That may be interpreted or explained.

Interpretation

INTERPRETA'TION, noun [Latin interpretatio.]

1. The act of interpreting; explanation of unintelligible words in language that is intelligible. interpretation is the design of translation.

2. The act of expounding or unfolding what is not understood or not obvious; as the interpretation of dreams and prophecy.

Look how we can, or sad or merrily,

Interpretation will misquote our looks.

3. The sense given by an interpreter; exposition. We sometimes find various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture and other ancient writings.

4. The power of explaining.

Interpretative

INTER'PRETATIVE, adjective Collected or known by interpretation.

An interpretative siding with heretics.

1. Containing explanation.

Interpretatively

INTER'PRETATIVELY, adverb As may be collected by interpretation.

Interpreted

INTER'PRETED, participle passive Explained; expounded.

Interpreter

INTER'PRETER, noun One that explains or expounds; an expositor; as an interpreter of the Scriptures.

1. A translator; one who renders the words of one language in words of corresponding signification in another.