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Lying between; intervening; intermediate. "Intermedial colors." Evelyn.

Intermediate. [Obs.]

Lying, coming, or done, between; intermediate; as, an intermediary project. Intermediary amputation (Surg.), an amputation for injury, performed after inflammation has set in.

Intermediate. [R.] Cudworth.

Intermediate space. [R.]

To fill up intermediate terms of, as of a series, according to the law of the series; to introduce, as a number or quantity, in a partial series, according to the law of that part of the series.

of finding from a few given terms of a series, as of numbers or observations, other intermediate terms in conformity with the law of the series.

To step in between parties at variance; to mediate; as, the prince interposed and made peace. Pope.

An intermediate depot or station between one commercial city or country and another. Mitford.

Of or pertaining to interstices; intermediate; within the tissues; as, interstitial cavities or spaces in the tissues of animals or plants.

Situated between vowels; immediately preceded and followed by vowel sounds, as, p in occupy, d in idea, etc.

Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. He was honored with an intimate and immediate admission. South.

Growing immediately above, or in front of, a leaf; as, intrafoliaceous stipules.

A psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar.

Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; -- distinguished from "mediate" knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension. Sagaci…

octrine that the perception or recognition of primary truth is intuitive, or direct and immediate; -- opposed to sensationalism, and experientialism.

hite, semicrystalline substance, resembling starch, with which it is isomeric. It is intermediate in nature between starch and sugar. Called also dahlin, helenin, alantin, etc.

lline, sugarlike substance, obtained by the decomposition of certain glucosides, and intermediate in nature between the hexacid alcohols (ductile, mannite, etc.) and the glucoses.

In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper.

ndoo gods, and the denial of the divine origin and infallibility of the Vedas. It is intermediate between Brahmanism and Buddhism, having some things in common with each.