GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Intervene (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Intervened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Intervening.] [L. intervenire, interventum, to intervene, to hinder; inter between + venire to come; akin to E. come: cf. F. intervenir. See Come.]
   
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   1. To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, “the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa”.
   
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   2. 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.”
   
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   3. To interpose; as, “to intervene to settle a quarrel”.
   
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   4. 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.  Abbott.
   
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   Intervene, v. t. To come between. [R.]
   
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   Self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates. De Quincey.
   
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   Intervene (?), n. A coming between; intervention; meeting. [Obs.]  Sir H. Wotton.
   
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