INTERVENE

v. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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

2.
v.

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.

3.
v.

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

4.
v.

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.

5.
v.

To come between. [R.] Self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates. De Quincey.

6.
n.

A coming between; intervention; meeting. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

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